Cloud Service Models

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 6 minIT & TechnologyLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: 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.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Recommend the right option

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What a client judges in a recommendation

    Read a 225-word text about What a client judges in a recommendation

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Service Model Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: IaaS - PaaS - SaaS Decision Framework

    IaaS - PaaS - SaaS, 3 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model recommendations

    Read a 376-word text about Three model recommendations

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Service Models to Scenarios

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Recommending Cloud Models

    Role-play: A client asks for your recommendation on which cloud service models to use for their new project (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your consulting moment

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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IaaSPaaSmulti-tenantvendor lock-inelasticityon-premise

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