ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: How to Manage Your Time Better

Are you constantly finding yourself behind at work or school?

Do you arrive at the end of the day and realize you've accomplished nothing on your to-do list?

Well, odds are you're not very good at time management.

And that is not doing your psychological health any favors.

In fact, a study published in Work and Stress found

that workers who didn't productively manage their time felt less in control of their lives.

Here's the good news.

You can get better.

Paying attention to how you spend your time will help you manage it more effectively, and we're going to help you learn how to do just that.

Today on Wellcast, we're going to get you in control of your day with our RAC method.

Recording, analyzing, and changing.

Three easy steps to great time management.

Pause and print a copy of our handy Wellcast day planner.

Finished printing?

Let's dive in.

Step one, recording.

When you wake up tomorrow, note the time in your day planner.

As the day progresses, write down everything that you do.

Yes, we mean everything.

The 10 minutes you spent getting dressed, the half day of productive work, the hours you spent between social networking sites, we mean it all.

Keep this up from the time you wake up until you go to sleep.

Step two, analyzing.

At the end of the day, go through the schedule and highlight any chunks of time that you don't feel were used productively.

Pick out your five biggest time wasters in your day.

Be honest with yourself.

You spent a half an hour by the coffee machine talking to your co-worker.

You spent an hour on Facebook.

And you stared into space for 20 minutes.

Come on, you get the picture.

Especially focus on the time wasters at work.

Why?

A study published by the British Medical Journal says that workplace stress is minimized by effective time management.

It also says that workplace stress bleeds over into home life and undermines a relaxed life at home.

Here's the ugly part.

Add up all the time you wasted.

How much productive time did you blow on activities that got you no results?

Step three, changing.

Now it's time to come up with a way to get that time back.

Here are three ways to change your time-wasting habits and become a better time manager.

Prioritize.

To-do lists are a really effective way to manage your time and your priorities.

Limit the number of tasks you have on this list to five and assign rankings to them in order of importance.

Declutter.

Not only is decluttering great for your health, but you won't waste time digging around piles of stuff to find that one piece of paper that you really need.

Check out our well cast on clutter for some helpful tips on lightening your load.

Schedule.

Hey, we all try to kill two birds with one stone, but odds are multitasking will actually just stress you out and delay you even more.

Instead, set aside blocks of time for individual activities.

For each activity, set start and stop points.

This way your day is cleanly segmented.

Then stick to this schedule.

Try going one week using these tips to reduce your wasted time.

At the end of a week, go figure out where you've improved your time management skills and how much time you've saved.

Let's recap.

Today you learned how to manage your time better by using our well-cast RAC method.

You recorded, analyzed, and hopefully changed how you use your time.

And you did this by learning how to prioritize your most important tasks, declutter your workspace to save you time,

and you learned how to build yourself an effective schedule to block out your day.

Hey, how did Rack work for you?

We want to hear how much time you were wasting and how much you're saving now.

Tweet us at WatchWellCast, email us at watchwellcast at gmail.com, or leave a comment down below.

We'll see you next time.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Manage Your Time Better”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: manage, schedule, stress, spent, step. This video has 62 sentences and 678 words to shadow. The speech runs for 3:47. The speaker talks at a natural 179 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 88% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
distress noun	/dɪˈstɹɛs/	Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
declutter verb	/diːˈklʌtə(ɹ)/	To remove clutter from, to tidy.
analyze verb	/ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/	To subject to analysis.
prioritize verb	/pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/	To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
productively adverb		In a productive manner.
waster noun	/ˈweɪstə/	Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
planner noun	/ˈplænɚ/	One who plans.
workplace noun	/ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/	The place where someone works.
cleanly adjective	/ˈklɛnli/	Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.
clutter noun	/ˈklʌtɚ/	A confused disordered jumble of things.
multitasking noun		The simultaneous execution of multiple tasks (programs) under the control of an interrupt-driven operating system.
workspace noun	/ˈwɝkˌspeɪs/	An area allocated for someone to work in, especially in an office.
chunk noun	/t͡ʃʌŋk/	A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick, irregular piece of something, e.g. wood or stone.
undermine verb	/ˌʌn.dɚˈmaɪn/	To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
assign verb	/əˈsaɪn/	To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.
add up verb		To take the sum of; to total.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
dig around verb		To thoroughly search every part of an area or a container in hopes of finding something.
figure out verb		To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
pick out verb		To remove by picking.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 11 contractions and reduced forms, such as you've, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like distress, declutter, analyze.

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