Work English › English for Project Reviews › Phrases and Patterns

English for Project Reviews: Phrases and Sentence Patterns

25 sentences 5 stages

A project review is where engineers have to be at their clearest: progress, risks and trade-offs, plus defending the design under pressure. This deck covers 50 core words for review meetings in five themes: review process, progress and scope, risks and dependencies, data and evidence, and decisions and actions. Every word comes with a real example sentence, plus 25 sentence patterns for reporting and answering questions. Sentences are grouped by stage, and every line is ready to reuse. Tap the speaker to hear it, or open the listen page for shadowing.

🎧 Listen and repeat 📚 Word list

Opening the review Progress and scope Risks and dependencies Data and evidence Decisions and actions

Opening the review 5

Thanks for joining. Here is the agenda for today.

感谢参加，这是今天的议程。

I will cover three things: progress, risks and next steps.

我讲三部分：进度、风险和下一步。

Let us start with where we are today.

我们先从当前状态开始。

This review is about the interface release only.

这次评审只讨论接口这个版本。

Please stop me at any point if something is unclear.

有不清楚的地方随时打断我。

Progress and scope 5

We are on track for the go-live at the end of the month.

我们按计划在本月底上线。

Two of the five deliverables are complete.

五个交付物完成了两个。

This request is out of scope for the current release.

这个需求不在当前版本范围内。

The timeline slipped by one week because of the network issue.

因为网络问题，时间计划延后了一周。

We kept a one-week buffer before go-live.

上线前我们留了一周缓冲。

Risks and dependencies 5

The biggest risk is the dependency on the ERP team.

最大的风险是依赖 ERP 团队。

If the API key is late, the impact is a one-week delay.

如果 API key 迟到，影响是延后一周。

Our mitigation is to cache the data locally.

我们的缓解措施是在本地缓存数据。

I would like to escalate this before it becomes a blocker.

我想在它变成卡点之前先升级上报。

This plan assumes the hardware arrives next week.

这个计划假设硬件下周到货。

Data and evidence 5

The metrics show a fifteen percent drop in cycle time.

指标显示节拍时间下降了 15%。

We tested with a sample of five hundred records.

我们用五百条记录做了样本测试。

Compared with the baseline, the line is eight percent faster.

和基线相比，这条线快了 8%。

The root cause was a wrong time zone setting.

根本原因是时区设置错了。

The trade-off is between speed and cost.

取舍在于速度与成本之间。

Decisions and actions 5

The decision is to delay the release by one week.

决定是把发布延后一周。

Every action item needs an owner and a date.

每个行动项都要有责任人和时间。

Let me summarise the three action items.

我总结一下三个行动项。

We will hold a follow-up next Monday.

我们下周一做一次跟进。

Any objections before we close the review?

结束评审前有反对意见吗？

🎬 Scenario Dialogues

🎬 2 complete dialogues Two speakers · bilingual · per-line playback · role play ›

❓ FAQ

Do I need to memorise all 25 sentences?

No. Pick one or two lines per stage first. The stages here are: Opening the review, Progress and scope, Risks and dependencies, Data and evidence, Decisions and actions. Come back to the rest when you actually need them.

How do I practise so it sounds natural?

Open the listen page, play the whole set once, then shadow sentence by sentence at 0.8x speed. Finally turn the text away and say it from memory.

What if my pronunciation is off?

Tap the speaker next to any sentence and repeat it. Audio uses your browser's built-in speech synthesis, so the voice varies by device.