Summary
Explore the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule) and its wide-ranging applications, from personal habits to business strategy. This B2 lesson helps learners understand how 80% of results often come from just 20% of efforts. Through video comprehension, vocabulary exercises, and practical application tasks, students will discover how to identify key inputs for maximum output, work smarter, and optimize their efforts in various contexts like work, studies, and personal goals.
Activities
Students will begin by reflecting on how the 80/20 rule might already apply to their daily lives, considering aspects like clothing choices, app usage, and work tasks, and discuss the benefits of focusing on high-impact activities.
Learners will encounter and deduce the meaning of key terms related to productivity and the Pareto Principle, then watch an explanatory video to answer specific questions about its origin, applications, and business implications.
Students will solidify their understanding by matching core vocabulary terms like Pareto Principle, superfans, and VIP perks with their definitions, and link causes (the 20%) with their effects (the 80%) based on the 80/20 rule.
The lesson focuses on practical communication, with students practicing how to give advice using modal verbs (should, could, can) and the imperative form, based on insights from the video and the 80/20 rule.
Students will learn about phrasal verbs common in discussions about productivity and business, completing sentences with verbs like turn out, tap into, and boil down to in context.
Learners will apply the 80/20 rule to a personal goal, writing a short paragraph to explain their strategy, identifying the critical 20% of effort for 80% of results, and using new vocabulary from the lesson.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson introduces key terms related to productivity and business strategy, including Pareto Principle, morphed into, superfans, underutilized asset, loyalty programs, customer advocacy, VIP perks, sales volume, training regimen, turn out, tap into, hold up, and boil down to.
Grammar focus
The lesson emphasizes practical communication skills by focusing on functional language for giving advice using modal verbs such as should, could, and can, as well as the imperative form. It also introduces and provides practice with common phrasal verbs like turn out, tap into, hold up, and boil down to.
