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Time Management Tips

In this activity, you will review several time management tips. Your task is to decide whether these tips are good or bad and then match them with their correct meanings by dragging and dropping them into the appropriate boxes below.

Time Management Tips

Match the phrases to their meanings

Answer Key

1. Try to do everything 100% correctly: Always aim for perfectionism

2. Delay until a later time or date (phrasal verb): Always put off the most unpleasant tasks

3. Delay until a later time or date (formal verb): Postpone tasks that you don't need to do today

4. Things that stop you from continuing to speak or do something, for example, people asking questions or the phone ringing: Avoid interruptions

5. Things that take away your attention from doing something, for example, the television or radio: Avoid distractions

6. Give (a task to someone else to do for you): Delegate unimportant tasks

7. Do (something) that you did not have time to do earlier: Try to catch up on overdue tasks at the end of the week

8. Decide which tasks are the most important so that you can do them first: Prioritize the most important tasks

9. Complete something so that you can move on to other tasks: Try to get the most unpleasant tasks out of the way first