Cloud & Infrastructure
Discuss cloud services and infrastructure concepts
Who it's for
Written for B2 (upper-intermediate) students who can discuss most topics and now need precision and range.
English for developers, IT support and anyone who works in tech. More IT & Technology lesson plans
Skills it practises
- Speaking: discussion questionsevery lesson
- Vocabulary: a target word listevery lesson
- Reading: a text or news storyevery lesson
- Controlled practice: gap-fills, matching, sorting and moreevery lesson
- Role-play: a dialogue to act outevery lesson
- An answer framework to structure what they sayevery lesson
Lessons
- Cloud Computing BasicsGoal: explain the cloud to a sceptical manager — plain-words definition, a benefit in their terms, objections welcomed and answered with evidence plus one honest trade-off.1 hr 13 minFree
- Cloud Service ModelsGoal: give a client a structured cloud recommendation — one option per need, each with a 'because', one trade-off admitted unprompted — and defend it under questioning.1 hr 6 minOutline
- Deployment and DevOpsGoal: walk a manager through a release plan — ordered steps with sequencing language, a named risk, a rollback with a time, and a deliberate timing choice.1 hr 13 minOutline
- CI/CD PipelinesGoal: report a technical failure upward — impact in the first sentence, the failed stage named, the cause hedged honestly, and a plan with times.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Infrastructure DiscussionsGoal: explain an infrastructure problem to a non-technical decision-maker — analogy, business impact, and a costed ask with a deadline — and get the budget.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Monitoring & ObservabilityGoal: deliver a status report under pressure — metrics with comparisons, a hypothesis labelled as a hypothesis, and a short-term plus long-term recommendation.1 hr 13 minOutline
- Disaster Recovery & High AvailabilityGoal: reassure a worried executive about disaster readiness — concrete recovery targets, drill evidence, honest limits — without promising the impossible.1 hr 6 minOutline
- Cloud Cost OptimizationGoal: explain a budget overrun to a CFO — own it in the first sentence, decompose it into drivers, pitch savings with hedged numbers, and prevent the repeat.1 hr 13 minOutline
How to use it in a lesson
- Lessons run 66 to 73 minutes, with a timing on every stage, so you can see before you start what fits your slot.
- Start with "Cloud Computing Basics": its whole plan is on this site, stage by stage, with the target vocabulary, free to read and to teach from on any video call.
- For a shorter slot, skip a practice stage or cut the discussion short: the stages are a guide, not a script.
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