English for IT Basics: Advice and Time (A2 to B1)
English for IT Basics is a collection of four courses featuring instructional videos, reading, listening and various types of exercises and activities specifically designed to test the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) Levels A2–B1 / Global Scale of English (GSE) range of 36–49.
Key skills you will learn
Enroll in Advice and Time (A2 to B1) and gain practical skills in:
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Grammar/Vocabulary:
- Modals (advice, obligation, requests)
- Modals for hypotheticals, past impossibility
- Present continuous + time expressions, key vocabulary
- Present perfect (+ for/since), vocabulary
- Grammar/Vocabulary: Present perfect (+ time adverbs), perfect tense uses
- Grammar/Vocabulary: Conditionals, offers, clauses, imperatives
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Skills & IT Contexts:
- Giving advice, asking for help (Software Dev)
- Describing past or hypothetical tasks (AI Prompting)
- Talking about ongoing work and plans (Software Dev)
- Describing experiences with current relevance (Data Analysis)
- Describing ongoing and completed actions (Tech Support, Community Mgmt)
- Expressing outcomes and giving instructions (Tech Support)
Designed for Everyone
English for IT Basics is a course designed for learners with basic English skills (CEFR A2), particularly those working in or training for entry-level roles in digital and IT-related fields.
English for IT Basics: Describing and Comparing is a course that focuses on teamwork, digital tools, and project management, learners practice describing performance, progress, and processes with accuracy and clarity. The course builds confidence in using key grammar and vocabulary—covering nouns, adjectives, comparisons, adverbs, prepositions, determiners, and cause–effect expressions—to compare tools, explain workflows, and describe testing outcomes.
You can take the course by yourself or as part of a program with an instructor or teacher and complete it in 15 hours.
It has been designed specifically to help you:
- learn to express yourself accurately and confidently with digestible grammar and vocabulary videos
- work with topic-specific terms for giving feedback, sharing updates, and working effectively in IT projects
- develop language skills in a fun and interactive way with exercices that deepen understanding
Aligned to English For IT B1 / GSE 36-49 Certification Exam
The English for IT Basics Course is 100% aligned to the EIT-B1-0x certification exam, available through Edube.org.
The exam covers the following objectives:
- Understand English grammar to an intermediate level
- Be familiar with some of the key vocabulary and phrases used in the world of IT
- Read simple texts and understand the overall theme
- Parse simple texts to find key information
- Determine when desired information is missing from a text or document
- Extract key details from conversations between colleagues
- Understand the main points of a short conversation between two speakers when they are discussing topics related to IT
- Understand when speakers are expressing opinions and determine their points of view
- Discuss digital tasks and their results using varied grammar forms
- Ask for and give instructions, describe processes and product features
- Describe situations using extended sentence structures
- Write sentences or short paragraphs giving description and detail using industry vocabulary
- Apply accurate grammar and vocabulary in written texts
- Incorporate essential elements such as time reference, word formation and structure
Course Contents
The first English for IT Basics course starts at the beginner, and will take you up to the intermediate level.
In this course, you will:
- use determiners, articles, and set phrases accurately in IT communication
- use idioms, phrasal verbs, and key grammar structures in IT-related texts and discussions
- apply comparative and descriptive language effectively in spoken and written contexts
- describe problems, processes, progress, and outcomes in digital project contexts
- use topic-specific vocabulary to discuss teamwork, collaboration, and project management
- use cause-and-effect language to explain decisions and results in projects
- describe tasks, responsibilities, time, place, and collaboration in professional IT settings
- use vocabulary related to automation, coordination, and workflow in IT environments
- describe data quality, quantity, and analysis using appropriate vocabulary and determiners
- demonstrate comprehension of short IT-related texts and workplace dialogues
