CI/CD Pipelines

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 13 minIT & TechnologyLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: report a technical failure upward — impact in the first sentence, the failed stage named, the cause hedged honestly, and a plan with times.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Report a failure calmly

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What a good failure report sounds like

    Read a 210-word text about What a good failure report sounds like

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: CI/CD Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Failure Report

    Status – Stage – Cause – Plan, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model reports

    Read a 317-word text about Three model reports

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Pipeline Concepts

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Pipeline Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Troubleshooting a Pipeline

    Role-play: The CI/CD pipeline failed and you need to explain the issue and solution to your team lead (6 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Deliver your failure report

    3 discussion questions

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