Discussing Tasks and Deadlines

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minIT & TechnologyLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: give honest progress updates — on track, behind, or overloaded — early enough that nobody is ever surprised by a deadline.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Will you make Friday?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Talking About Work

    Read a 142-word text about Talking About Work

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Project Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model updates — on track, behind, overloaded

    Read a 260-word text about Three model updates — on track, behind, overloaded

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Task Language

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Sentences

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Project Update

    Role-play: Your manager asks about your project progress (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the honest update

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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deadlineon trackbehind schedulepriorityscopedeliverable

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