Practice Talking About The Progress of an Ongoing Project

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In this lesson, you'll practice how to talk about the progress of an ongoing project.

Let's look at the main dialogue. Two people are having a conversation.

Isabelle, 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's a list of common business project related phrases.

First is bring us up to speed. Bring us up to speed. Bring us up to speed.

On track. On track. On track. Under budget.