Your First 90 Days
Aims
Introduce yourself to a new team, ask questions without feeling stupid, and land a few early wins
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Today's Goal: Start Well Without Pretending
4 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: The First Ninety Days
Read a 353-word text about The First Ninety Days
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: New Starter Language
9 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Weak Question to Strong Question
Matching exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Your Thirty-Second Introduction
Short-answer exercise, 1 item
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Day Three With Your New Colleague
Role-play: A coffee-machine conversation with a colleague who has been in the team for years (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Ninety Days From Now
4 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
The remaining 6 stages of this lesson, with the procedure, the examples and the exercises, are included with Starter, along with the interactive version you can teach from. Lesson 1 of this course is free: the full plan is on this site, and a free account opens it in the interactive player.
Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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