Annual Review Updates

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

Aims

Goal: an annual review as a strategic narrative — targets versus actuals, lessons extracted and applied, metric-backed priorities, risks with mitigations, and a close that ends on momentum.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The year as a story

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Annual Review Updates

    Read a 266-word text about Annual Review Updates

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Annual Review Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: An annual review, assembled whole

    Read a 303-word text about An annual review, assembled whole

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Improving Annual Review Sections

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Annual-review moves

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Year-End Review

    Role-play: Your lead investor is reviewing the draft of your annual review update and helping you refine it before you send it to all investors. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your year, told whole

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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comprehensiveretrospectiveslong-term valueshortfallsextracting lessonssystematicallyverticalkey person dependency

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