💻 LESSON 7 — Jira & Task Management

🎯 Topic: Working with Jira and Managing Tasks

🧠 Grammar:

Prepositions of Place & Time
Future with Going to

🗣️ Speaking:

Discuss tasks in Jira
Plan your work week

🎯 LESSON OBJECTIVES

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

✅ talk about Jira tasks

✅ discuss project status

✅ describe your work plan

✅ use common Agile vocabulary

✅ use going to for future plans

🔥 WARM-UP QUESTIONS (5–10 min)

💬 Answer the questions:

💻 Do you use Jira at work?

📋 How many tasks do you usually have?

🐞 What is your favorite part of testing?

😅 Have you ever forgotten to update a task status?

📅 How do you plan your work week?

🚀 Do you like working in sprints?

🖼️ JIRA & AGILE TEAMWORK

📚 VOCABULARY

Word	🇺🇦 Translation	Example Sentence
sprint	спринт	Our sprint starts on Monday.
backlog	беклог	The story is in the backlog.
story	історія користувача	I am testing a new story.
epic	епік	This epic contains ten stories.
assign	призначати	The manager assigned the task to me.
status	статус	The task status is "Done".
progress	прогрес	The ticket is in progress.
estimate	оцінка	My estimate is 4 hours.
board	дошка	The ticket is on the board.
workflow	робочий процес	Our workflow is simple.

🎯 VOCABULARY PRACTICE

Complete the sentences:

A large project with many stories is called an ______.
When you give a task to a person, you ______ it.
The current condition of a task is its ______.
A list of future work is called a ______.
A short Agile work period is a ______.

🧠 GRAMMAR 1 — PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

📌 Common Prepositions

ON

📋 The task is on the board.

🖥️ The note is on my screen.

IN

📁 The story is in the backlog.

🚀 The ticket is in progress.

📂 The file is in the folder.

UNDER

📄 The document is under the report.

NEXT TO

💻 The laptop is next to the monitor.

✏️ Practice

Choose:

The ticket is (on / in) the board.
The story is (in / under) the backlog.
My laptop is (next to / on) the monitor.

🧠 GRAMMAR 2 — PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

AT

⏰ The meeting starts at 10 a.m.

ON

📅 We have planning on Monday.

IN

📆 The sprint ends in June.

Examples

We have a meeting at 9 o'clock.
The sprint starts on Monday.
We will release the product in July.

🧠 GRAMMAR 3 — FUTURE WITH "GOING TO"

FORM

Positive

✅ I am going to finish this task today.

✅ We are going to start a new sprint.

Negative

❌ I am not going to test this feature today.

Questions

❓ Are you going to finish the bug report?

❓ Is the team going to release the build?

📖 FUNNY READING STORY

😂 "The Lost Jira Ticket"

Tom is a QA tester. ☕

One Monday morning, he opened Jira and looked at the board.

Something was strange.

A very important story was missing!

Tom checked the backlog.

Nothing.

He checked the sprint.

Nothing.

He checked another project.

Still nothing.

Tom became nervous.

"Where is the ticket?" he asked.

The developers started looking too.

For two hours, everyone searched for the missing story.

Finally, the project manager found it.

The ticket was assigned to Tom.

The problem?

Tom had accidentally closed the ticket himself on Friday.

Everyone laughed.

Tom laughed too.

Then he updated the status and wrote:

"Investigation completed. The ticket was hiding from me." 😆

❓ READING COMPREHENSION

What does Tom do?
What was missing?
Where did Tom search?
Who found the ticket?
Why was the ticket missing?
How did everyone react?

🗣️ SPEAKING PRACTICE

Answer the questions:

📋 How many tasks are currently in your backlog?

🚀 What sprint are you working in?

🐞 What task is in progress now?

📅 What are you going to do tomorrow?

⏰ Are you going to finish all your tasks this week?

🎭 ROLE PLAY

Situation: Sprint Planning Meeting

👩 Manager:
"What are you going to work on this week?"

👨 Tester:
Use:

sprint
backlog
story
progress
estimate

Example

💬 I am going to test two stories this week. One story is already in progress. My estimate is three days.

🗣️ DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

🤔 Which is harder: testing or development?

📋 Do you prefer many small tasks or one large task?

☕ How much coffee do QA testers need to survive a sprint?

😅 Have you ever accidentally changed the wrong ticket?

🚀 What makes a sprint successful?

🐞 What is the funniest bug you have ever found?

📅 Do you plan your work every day?

💻 If Jira disappeared tomorrow, what would happen?

✍️ WRITING TASK

My Jira Week

Write 8–10 sentences.

Use:

✅ sprint

✅ backlog

✅ story

✅ progress

✅ board

✅ workflow

✅ going to

Example Start

This week I am working in Sprint 15. I have three stories in progress. I am going to finish one task today...

🏆 FINAL CHALLENGE

Speak for 1–2 minutes:

"My Typical Sprint"

Include:

📋 backlog

🚀 sprint

📖 story

📊 progress

🖥️ board

📅 going to

🌟 LESSON SUMMARY

Today you learned:

✅ Jira vocabulary

✅ Prepositions of place

✅ Prepositions of time

✅ Future with going to

✅ How to discuss tasks professionally

💻🐞📋🚀 Great job! You are now ready to talk confidently about Jira, Agile projects, and your work plans in English.

LESSON 7 — Jira and Task Management