Working in a Dev Team

A2 · Elementary1 hr 6 minIT & TechnologyLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: give your daily standup update in three short sentences — yesterday, today, blockers — and ask for help when you're stuck.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Your thirty seconds

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: How Dev Teams Work

    Read a 165-word text about How Dev Teams Work

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Dev Team Words

    7 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Sprint Cycle

    Sprint Cycle, 3 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model standups

    Read a 202-word text about Three model standups

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Team Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: A Daily Standup

    Role-play: You're giving your update at the daily standup meeting (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: run your standup

    3 discussion questions

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