Time. Время.

Оборудование: раздаточный материал: карточки «Как экономить время», тексты с лекцией «Управление временем: почему это важно?», презентация, интерактивная доска.

The teacher begins the lesson with the following parable:

There lived one businessman. His property was millions of dollars. He had been working hard all his lifetime and he decided to take a year to have a rest. He made up his mind to live a life of luxury that he could permit himself. Hardly ever had he taken this decision Angel of Death came to him. As he was a professional seller he wanted to persuade the Angel to sell him a little time.

"Give me three days and take one third of my property”, he said but the Angel didn’t agree. "OK. Then take half of my money and give me one day so that I would be able to see my family. I rarely saw them because I had been working so much!” The Angel was unshakable. Then the businessman begged to give him two minutes to write a letter to his son. The Angel agreed. He took a piece of paper and wrote: ….(here the teacher should stop and ask the Ss to complete the story) ….

"Care for your time! I didn’t manage to buy even an hour for the whole of my property”

– So the topic of our lesson is TIME and by the end of the class we will have tried to answer the question if it is possible to manage the time. And if it is then how to do this. (The word TIME appears in the presentation).

– Let’s begin with idioms.