Lesson: How to make the most of your weekend
Warm up
Answer the following questions. You might be asked to write them down or answer them out-loud.
Vocabulary
Look at the vocabulary below. Take a time to explore the links for their definitions in English and their translations to portuguese. When you are done, make a sentence with each word in the list. Ask your teacher if you should write them down or say them out loud.
- [d] [t] - seal
- [d] [t] - mode
- [d] [t] - key
- [d] [t] - bare
- [d] [t] - while
- [d] [t] - hiking
- [d] [t] - focus
Video
Watch the following video but DON'T read the transcript yet.
You've worked hard all week; meetings, presentations, emails - more emails. And it's finally the weekend.
Here's the trouble. We spend all week learning how to be productive. So, it's hard to break the seal when Friday comes. You can try to avoid work, but you're still in work mode.
See, the key to having a real break during the weekend is to do things that are not productive. So while turning off the phone is good, creating something with your bare hands is better. And while turning off the email may be helpful, taking your family on a hiking trip to a state park will actually help you disconnect.
So do something this weekend that makes you focus on being unproductive and it might just feel like a weekend again.