Intro
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Has this ever happened to you? You lie down to read a good book, or to watch your favorite TV show. Suddenly, you remember that you had something important to do that you’d forgotten! Maybe you need a day planner to remember your schedule.
Some people need to make lists or carry a planner to remember all of the things they need to do. It can be a small date book or a calendar on your phone, as long as it helps you to keep an appointment.
Jessica uses her planner so that she knows what she’s going to do all day, but Gary only writes down some of the things he has to do. Read on in today’s English lesson about day planners.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Jessica: I am so relieved, Gary, that I use a day planner.
Gary: Oh, you do use one?
Jessica: I do! Because I have an appointment tomorrow, and I wouldn’t have remembered that it was on my schedule.
Gary: I’m kind of laid back in the way of what items I put on my schedule.
Jessica: Are you?
Gary: Yeah, I’m organized. I keep very good detail of what I need to do, and I don’t really put everything on there.
Jessica: I must be a type A personality because I am so organized that I actually block out, hour by hour, my daily schedule.
Gary: Do you really? Does it help you to stay relaxed or does that stress you out?
Jessica: It actually helps me stay relaxed. I look at it in the morning, and I know exactly what I have going on for the day.
Gary: I guess you could say that my approach is more laissez-faire in that I just have a few things on there.
Jessica: Maybe I should take some lessons from you and relax a little bit more.
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Discussion
Jessica uses a day planner to keep organized every day. She plans hour by hour, and it helps her to relax because she knows exactly what she needs to do. Gary also keeps a planner, but he’s more laid back about how he uses it. He only writes down some of the things he needs to do.
Jessica thinks that she can learn something from Gary’s example of not writing down every little thing she has to do. She thinks that maybe she can relax even more if she doesn’t plan so much.
Do you use a day planner? Do you write down everything you have to do?
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