Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
How do you feel when you check your email? Sometimes, you might let your email pile up. This makes you feel deluged. There might be dozens, or even hundreds, of emails in your inbox. Messages from friends, weekly sales at your favorite stores, social media notices, and spam. How can a person deal with so many emails every day?
First, keep a calm mindset. Then, try Inbox Zero. In Inbox Zero, you commit to having an inbox with zero emails. Many people think this is unattainable, but it’s not a pipe dream. For Inbox Zero to work, you can’t procrastinate. Every day, you must do things like delete unimportant emails and delegate emailed tasks to other people.
Marni has too many emails. She needs a hack to help her deal with them. Listen to today’s English lesson to find out if Andy has the answer.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Marni: Andy, I am so deluged by my email. I just have pages and pages of emails I need to deal with. I need to answer them, delete them, just… I’m overwhelmed by my email.
Andy_H: Oh, really? Well, have you heard about Inbox Zero?
Marni: I have, but I feel like it’s something that’s unattainable for me.
Andy_H: Unattainable is nothing. Remember what Michael Jordan said, you miss 100% of the shots your don’t take. Inbox Zero, it’s literally a productivity hack. All it is, is changing your mindset. You can delegate all of your emails and messages. Instead of letting that stuff just pile up, you commit to making sure that all your important emails get filed away into the right folder.
Marni: Okay.
Andy_H: All the emails that you get, you clear those out.
Marni: Hmmmm.
Andy_H: It may seem like a pipe dream, but it is completely achievable. And it’s a way of just making sure you don’t procrastinate.
Marni: Yeah, that’s what I do. I procrastinate. You’re right, maybe I should try this. Maybe it will change my life.
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Discussion
Marni hopes that Andy can help her. What’s the problem? Email. Or rather, too many emails. Marni is deluged with messages, and all her emails have started to pile up. She doesn’t know what to do. It feels easier to procrastinate than to deal with this problem. Is having an empty inbox just a pipe dream?
Andy doesn’t think so. In fact, he wants Marni to stop thinking an empty inbox is unattainable. The Inbox Zero method could be the hack that changes Marni’s life. All she needs to do is change her mindset and commit. From now on, Marni must deal with her email every day instead of letting it pile up.
How do you deal with your problems? Do you procrastinate and let things pile up?
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