English for IT Basics

Needs and Responsibilities


Learn English in the context of IT and prepare for the English for IT certification exam.

Having completed this course, you will be ready to take the English for IT B1 / GSE 36-49 certification exam.

The main goal of this course is to take you from a beginner level of English to an intermediate level within the specific context of IT.

Learn words and phrases used by professional software developers, security and network engineers, product managers and support representatives.

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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: Needs and Responsibilities is a course that focuses on the language skills needed to explain, compare, and collaborate effectively. Realistic situations like sprint planning, cloud service reviews, and user feedback analysis, help strengthen the use of transitive verbs, the passive voice, and modal verbs. It builds confidence with verb patterns, including gerunds and to-infinitives—essential for describing plans, responsibilities, and reactions in IT fields. Relative clauses help learners add detail, while comparatives and key terms support clear, confident discussions about tools and methods.

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 common in Cybersecurity, Project Management, UX/UI Design and Software Development.
  • 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 third English for IT Basics course starts at the beginner level, and will take you up to the intermediate level.

In this course, you will:

  • use transitive verbs and passive voice in present and past tenses to describe IT actions and processes
  • apply IT-related vocabulary (e.g., sprint, debugging, functionality) with appropriate verb patterns and comparative structures
  • employ modal verbs and related expressions to express necessity and obligation across past, present, and future contexts in IT collaboration
  • use relative clauses to describe IT responsibilities, services, and collaborative tasks
  • use gerunds after prepositions and suggestion phrases to describe processes, plans, and sequences in tech communication
  • apply to-infinitive phrases after adjectives to express feelings and situations in IT-related spoken and written texts
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For teachers, schools, and training organizations

The English for IT Basics course and certification exam prepare students to work in the English language in the field of IT. Your students will learn many of the terms and phrases commonly used in the IT sector, allowing them to tailor their English-language learning to the jobs that they want, or that they already have.

There are ample training resources available for teachers and instructors, as well as the ability for teachers to follow the progress of their students through an online, interactive gradebook.

You can register your school or institution at OpenEDG.org, the parent orgnanization of English for IT, and gain access to the educational platform Edube.org

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