Monitoring & Observability

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 13 minIT & TechnologyLesson 6 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: deliver a status report under pressure — metrics with comparisons, a hypothesis labelled as a hypothesis, and a short-term plus long-term recommendation.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Report from the dashboard

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What a status report is judged on

    Read a 225-word text about What a status report is judged on

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Monitoring Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Status Report

    Numbers – Comparison – Hypothesis – Recommendation, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model reports

    Read a 309-word text about Three model reports

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Monitoring Concepts

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Monitoring Statements

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Investigating a Performance Issue

    Role-play: You notice a monitoring alert and need to report the issue to your team lead and propose a solution (6 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your live status report

    3 discussion questions

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