Assesing The Project

Assessing the
Project
Theme:
Business Communication
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Pre-lesson activities

Lesson objectives
The topic of this lesson is project assessments. You will:
 take part in a project review meeting
 focus on phrases for speculating
 practise the language for describing graphs from Prepare

Lead-in - discussion
1.Do you know any companies/products that are doing really well/are on the rise
at the moment?
2.Can you remember a product whose sales escalated quickly but that didn’t last?
Why do you think it happened?

This product experienced a dramatic / dramatically increase
/this product increased dramatically
The pandemic pushed / moved / let up the price of masks
The sales tanked

Language focus 1
What’s the best way to describe the line? Match the phrases to the lines.
1. X increased slowly A
2 X rose suddenly E
3 X escalated drastically G
Skyrocketed
4 X remained unchanged F
5 X declined gradually D
6 X grew steadily C
7 X dropped dramatically B
Plummeted
Maybe had a fight with his wife
He may have had a fight with his wife
Perhaps was working a lot and wanted to
feel comfortable
He might have been working a lot and…
Maybe suddenly an incident happened
and had to come instantly to the office
An incident could have happened…
He was definitely tired
He must have been tired
He definitely forgot to change back into
his work clothes (before the start of the
work day)
He must have forgotten to change back…
He definitely didn’t realize this
embarrassing situation was going to
happen
He can’t have realized ….
Language focus 2
Work with a partner. Read the situations below and discuss what you think
happened.
• You arrive at work early to discover your boss asleep at his desk in his pyjamas.
…must have…
• In the morning, you look in your diary and discover you have a meeting, but you have no
….could have…
memory of arranging it.
…might have…
• After lunch, you come back to the office to discover that smoke is coming from your
…can’t have…
computer.
• You take a taxi home, but then the taxi driver starts driving in the opposite direction.

Pre-Task
Read the text.
1. Would you buy

‘myGlasses’?
2. Can you think of any

potential problems with the
Technology?

Task
You are the CEO and marketing directors of MyGlasses. You are going to have a meeting to
review the MyGlasses project as there’s a problem with sales. Discuss:
-what happened to the Sales of myGlasses?

-why do you think this happened?
Prepare a mini presentation giving a summary

of your conclusions to the rest of the company

Task: solution

Feedback
Choose the best option(s)
1. The computer stopped working / to work
I stopped smoking vs I stopped to smoke
2. we need to assure (our customers) / be assured that the technology works
3. profitable / profitable / profitable
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How can we improve this sentence?
1. Maybe another product must have been introduced by a competitive company competitor
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How do we pronounce these?
Can’t have, could have, might have, may have

Review
 The topic of this lesson is project assessments. You will:
 take part in a project review meeting
 focus on phrases for speculating
 practise the language for describing graphs

What’s next?
 Go to Progress and listen to the recording a meeting again.
Notice how the presenter makes pauses.
 Read more about using the modals of deduction in the past
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-
upper-intermediate/modals-deductions-about-the-past

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Assessing the

 your name on Zoom is clear (use Latin letters)

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

Use reactions to show that you are ready,

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

How does it work? prepare practise

Remember, you need to

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

The topic of this lesson is project assessments. You will:

 take part in a project review meeting

 focus on phrases for speculating

 practise the language for describing graphs from Prepare

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

Why do you think it happened?

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The pandemic pushed / moved / let up the price of masks

The sales tanked

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Read the text.

1. Would you buy

2. Can you think of any

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-what happened to the Sales of myGlasses?

Prepare a mini presentation giving a summary

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English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

 The topic of this lesson is project assessments. You will:

 take part in a project review meeting

 focus on phrases for speculating

 practise the language for describing graphs

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

 Go to Progress and listen to the recording a meeting again.

Notice how the presenter makes pauses.

 Read more about using the modals of deduction in the past

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

Do you like the platform?

For more information, write to

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

This slide deck was made by Maria Penner

English Online | www.britishcouncil.org

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