This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
Items in this lesson
Lesson plan
Lesson aims
Listening exercise (TedTalk)
Recap lesson aims
Irregular verbs practice
Slide 1 - Slide
Lesson aims
After this lesson you:
can answer questions, after listening to a audio fragment/watching a video;
can listen for specific information.
Slide 2 - Slide
Slide 3 - Video
00:51
What happened every single paper?
A
Work spread out nicely
B
Everything done last moment
C
Deadline would be missed
D
The paper got lost
Slide 4 - Quiz
01:02
How much time do you get for your senior thesis?
A
Six months
B
One month
C
A year
D
Three months
Slide 5 - Quiz
02:16
What was his solution for writing his senior thesis?
Slide 6 - Open question
03:14
Why did he write the blog post on procrastinating?
Slide 7 - Open question
05:19
What are the only things the monkey thinks about?
A
Procrastinating and stressing
B
Eating and sleeping
C
Youtube videos and Wikipedia pages
D
Easy and fun
Slide 8 - Quiz
06:06
What ability does the rational decision-maker give us?
Slide 9 - Open question
09:17
Who woke up?
A
The panic monster
B
The instant gratification monkey
C
The rational decision maker
D
Tim Urban
Slide 10 - Quiz
10:46
What surprised Tim about the e-mails?
Slide 11 - Open question
12:54
What was Tim's epiphany?
A
Non-procrastinators do not exist
B
Procrastinators do not exist
C
Deadlines cause procrastination
D
Procrastinating only happens when there are no deadlines
Slide 12 - Quiz
Lesson aims
After this lesson you:
can answer questions, after listening to a audio fragment/watching a video;
can listen for specific information.
Slide 13 - Slide
Now work on:
1st page: you are going to do a watching test soon... so let's practise listening/watching! Go to the website on the next page and choose a couple of listening exercises you can do.
2nd page: practise a bit more on the difference between the present perfect and past simple.