Effective Standups

B1 · Intermediate1 hr 7 minStartup EnglishLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: give a sharp yesterday/today/blockers update and facilitate the standup — gentle interrupts, discussions taken offline, every blocker leaving as a named action item.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Fifteen minutes, no more

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Making Daily Standups Valuable

    Read a 301-word text about Making Daily Standups Valuable

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Effective Standups Vocabulary

    8 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: A model standup, facilitated

    Read a 293-word text about A model standup, facilitated

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: Fix Standup Mistakes

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Practice: standup language

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Role Play: Facilitating a Daily Standup

    Role-play: You are facilitating a daily standup meeting with your development team, keeping it focused and productive. (4 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: facilitate the standup

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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Daily standupBlockerSurface blockersTake offlineSyncAsynchronous standupStatus updateAction item

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