Practice talking about the progress of an ongoing project
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| Do you know how to talk about the progress of an ongoing project in English? |
| Welcome to Three Step English Practice by EnglishClass101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to talk about the progress of an ongoing project. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| "Isabel, can you bring us up to speed on the progress on the new facility?" |
| "Sure, Frank. So far, progress is looking good. Construction at this site has been increasing steadily since we began a few months ago. We should be on track to open the facility early next year." |
| 'Bring us up to speed' and 'on track' are common expressions we use in business English to talk about project progress. |
| "Has been increasing" is the present perfect continuous tense, which we often use to describe an action that started in the past and is still happening now. |
| Let's practice more useful vocabulary and expressions like these in this lesson. |
| Here is a list of common business project-related phrases. |
| First is, |
| bring us up to speed. bring us up to speed (enunciated). bring us up to speed. |
| on track. on track (enunciated). on track. |
| under budget. under budget (enunciated). under budget. |
| anticipated. anticipated (enunciated). anticipated. |
| keep an eye on. keep an eye on (enunciated). keep an eye on. |
| Do you know what "bring us up to speed" means? |
| give us the latest update. |
| How about "on track"? |
| progressing as planned and likely to succeed. |
| And "under budget"? |
| spending less than the allocated amount. |
| And what about "anticipated"? |
| more than we expected. |
| And "keep an eye on"? |
| monitor closely. |
| Let's do some multiple choice. You'll be given a sentence that is written incorrectly - choose the answer that would make it correct. |
| Circle the correct answer. |
| Can you bring me up to budget on the timeline? |
| "up to speed." |
| 'up to budget' and 'up to date' don't fit here. The correct phrase is 'bring us up to speed,' which means give the latest update. |
| Circle the correct answer. |
| Is the project under track? |
| on. |
| 'under track' and 'in track' are incorrect. We say 'on track,' meaning the project is progressing as planned. |
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