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

Always aim for perfectionism

Avoid interruptions and distractions

Try to get the most unpleasant tasks out of the way first

Try to catch up on overdue tasks at the end of the week

Prioritize the most important tasks

Postpone tasks that you don't need to do today

Always put off the most unpleasant tasks

Delegate unimportant tasks

Match the phrases to their meanings

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

Try to do everything 100% correctly:

Do (something) that you did not have time to do earlier:

Give (a task to someone else to do for you):

Delay until a later time or date (phrasal verb):

Delay until a later time or date (formal verb):

Complete something so that you can move on to other tasks:

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

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

Answer Key

❌ Bad Practice – Try to do everything 100% correctly: Always aim for perfectionism

❌ Bad Practice – Delay until a later time or date (phrasal verb): Always put off the most unpleasant tasks

✅ Good Practice – Delay until a later time or date (formal verb): Postpone tasks that you don't need to do today

✅ Good Practice – Things that stop you from continuing: Avoid interruptions

✅ Good Practice – Things that take away attention: Avoid distractions

✅ Good Practice – Give a task to someone else: Delegate unimportant tasks

✅ Good Practice – Do what you missed earlier: Catch up on overdue tasks at the end of the week

✅ Good Practice – Decide which tasks are most important: Prioritize the most important tasks

✅ Good Practice – Complete unpleasant tasks first: Get the most unpleasant tasks out of the way first