Product Development Terms

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 14 minStartup EnglishLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: deliver a 30-second standup and a one-minute sprint plan using five agile terms — sprint, standup, ship, retrospective, iteration — accurately.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Speak product

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Building Products the Startup Way

    Read a 301-word text about Building Products the Startup Way

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Product Development Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: A model standup and sprint plan

    Read a 284-word text about A model standup and sprint plan

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Fix Product Development Mistakes

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: agile vocabulary

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match the ritual to its purpose

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  7. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Discussing the Product Roadmap

    Role-play: You are discussing the product roadmap and development priorities with your engineering lead, using common product development terminology. (4 lines)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: standup and sprint

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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Agile developmentSprintStandup meetingShipIterationRetrospectiveContinuous deploymentProduct roadmap

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