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Planning meetings

backlog, estimate, priority, How long will it take?

This topic has 15 questions at level A2 on key words and typical phrases. Each answer comes with a short explanation, and you get a review of your mistakes at the end. Module goal: share updates on your work at regular team meetings and estimate tasks.

Sample questions with explanations

  1. How long ___ this task take?

    • are
    • does it
    • is
    • ✓ will

    Question about the future: How long will it take?

  2. What is a backlog?

    • A bug report
    • ✓ A list of tasks to do
    • A server error
    • A team party

    The backlog is the list of work the team may do later.

  3. I think this task is ___ than the login page.

    • big
    • ✓ bigger
    • biggest
    • more big

    Short adjective → -er + than: bigger than.

Words and phrases (8)
sprint
a short period of work, often 2 weeks
backlog
a list of tasks for the future
to estimate
to guess how long or how big a task is
story points
units to measure the size of a task
priority
how important something is
task
a piece of work
capacity
how much work the team can do
to take on
to agree to do a task