Technical Questions

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: explain your technology to both audiences — business outcomes for non-technical investors, honest architecture and tradeoffs for technical ones — without jargon or perfection claims.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Two audiences, one technology

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Technical Questions

    Read a 315-word text about Technical Questions

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Technical Questions Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: The same system, explained twice

    Read a 276-word text about The same system, explained twice

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Technical to Business Translation

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Technical-conversation language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Technical Due Diligence

    Role-play: A technically sophisticated investor is asking detailed questions about your technology stack, architecture, and technical team. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your technology, twice

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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jargonpatentablereplicatetech stackscalabilitytradeoffmanaged serviceshorizontal scaling

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