Risk Management & Blockers

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minIT & TechnologyLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: raise a blocker and flag a risk so clearly — what, impact, what you've tried, what you need — that the team can act in the same meeting.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Stuck, and saying so

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Managing Risks and Blockers

    Read a 251-word text about Managing Risks and Blockers

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Risk Vocabulary

    7 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Raising a blocker, flagging a risk — both in full

    Read a 269-word text about Raising a blocker, flagging a risk — both in full

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Risk Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Risk Language

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Raising a Blocker

    Role-play: You need to raise a blocker in a team meeting and discuss risk mitigation (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: unblock yourself out loud

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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riskblockermitigationdependencycontingencyimpactlikelihood

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