Summary
Keeping track of ongoing work and communicating its progress is a vital skill in any professional setting. This lesson uses a real article to explore how we talk about projects that are currently in development. You'll learn essential language to describe what's happening now and how things are progressing.
Vocabulary
Students will encounter key expressions for project management, such as get a project off the ground and be on track. The lesson also introduces useful phrases like be ahead of schedule and a bottleneck to help you describe progress and challenges.
Grammar
The grammar focus is on the present continuous for ongoing projects. You'll learn how to use this tense correctly to describe actions and situations that are happening now or are in progress at work.
Practical English
Develop your skills in giving a project update with practical phrases. You'll learn how to start an update professionally and how to report progress or issues, using expressions like So far, so good and We've hit a slight issue with the supplier.
Discussion
There's a dedicated discussion activity to help you practise talking about projects and work in a natural, conversational way.
Reading
Based on a real article, this lesson provides authentic context for understanding and discussing current work projects.
