一周7天,5天工作日2天周末,周六通常在筋疲力竭中休息,周日刚缓过神就要投身下一周繁忙工作。开个脑洞:如果,在紧张工作两天后,周三休息回血充电,正好做些购物就医等平时需请假办的事,四五六继续工作,周日再休息。繁忙的五天连轴工作压力被有效释放,张弛有度,不让工作变过劳,你觉得这个提议怎么样?
Dialogue :
WeekendWednesday
dialogue 1
Jingjing: Mark, I know we've talked a lot about ______. Whatdo you think about a ______?
Mark: ______. You'llhave to tell me ______.
Jingjing: That's when someone has Wednesday______, instead of_____.
Mark: So, theirweekend is just______?
Jingjing: _____, there's a______.
Mark: What'sthe _____? Someone still has the same _____ of days ______and the same number of _______.
Jingjing: You've worked______, haven't you? And didn't you notice _______ yougot _____ on Fridays?
Mark: _____.
Jingjing: Why not?
Mark: I hadan office job with______. Every day felt______.
Jingjing: Wasn't _____?
Mark: OnFriday, _____ would call, which gave me a chance to ______.
Jingjing: What about your Saturday? Did it feel like______?
Mark: Itdid. I didn't feel______, and usually______.
Jingjing: Don't you think people with______ need theirSaturdays_______.
Mark: Oh, soyou mean their two ______?
Jingjing: That's exactly what I mean. If someone had a day off beforethey______,______.
Mark: Whatif people at one office ______, ______, or ______?
Jingjing: Idon't think _____on Wednesday or Saturday.
Mark: Howcome?
Jingjing: People couldn't______, and would just _____ to a daywhen everyone's in.
Mark: Itmight be______. An ____ might have to move some work to____. Then again, it'd be a day with fewer _____ and meetings, aday for _____.
Jingjing: So, if you _____, you'd _____?
Mark: Iwould, and I'd let people _____. People with families might not ______when their _____ and kids have ______. It makes sense for young peopleand ______.
dialogue 2
Jingjing: Mark, _____ to weekend Wednesday?
Mark: Yeah,I used to work every day _____ at one job. I don't know_____ it earlier.
Jingjing: Was it _____ every week?
Mark: I gotwork calls______, because _____ as me.
Jingjing: Ibet it was ____ for you to______, see the doctor or go to ______.
Mark: Good point! All that stuff was ______, because places ______.
Jingjing: What about when you were a student? Did you _____ over theweek or ______?
Mark: ____ was_____ every semester. I_____,and still do as a teacher.
Jingjing: Yeah, if you can take a course______, you_____.
Mark: I'dusually _____ four days of classes per week. But itusually turned out to be_______.
Jingjing: Did you prefer to _____ every week?
Mark: Idon't think ____, because of_____. Two and a half days_____—that gave me the ______everything.
Jingjing: That makes me think that people who ____ arebetter_______.
Mark: It's alot easier to_____.
Jingjing: Hmm, I guess flex time is still _______for most folks _____.
Mark: Letpeople set some of their _____and______, rather than havingeveryone _______.
new wordsand phrases
Beats me.
downside
upside
I can't speak for
vice versa
a net loss
empty nester
smooth sailing
a breeze
a crap shoot
shoot for
punch the clock