English for IT presentations and community events

B1 Intermediate | Course 2


Follow an IT community event through presentations and question-and-answer sessions covering software development, game design, technical support, networking and cybersecurity. Explore professionals’ experiences, challenges and ideas, and discover examples of success through community participation. Build the vocabulary and comprehension skills needed to follow a wider range of professional IT discussions.

This course helps learners build English language skills for IT study and work at level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), within the programme’s Global Scale of English (GSE) range of 43-58.

Channel: Edube

Sponsor: OpenEDG

Mode: Online self-study or instructor-led

Level: Intermediate

Cost: USD 30

Study time: 20–30 hours (self-paced)


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Follow the conversations at an IT community event

Course 2 takes you from the opening welcome through specialist presentations and question-and-answer sessions to the closing remarks. Its seven modules connect professional experiences with the value of learning from an IT community.

Hear perspectives from software development, game design, technical support, networking and cybersecurity. Topics include development journeys, designing for people, understanding end users, keeping systems connected and staying informed about security.

Presentations and Q&A sessions give listening practice a clear purpose: following a speaker’s ideas, understanding questions and responses, and recognising how professionals describe challenges and solutions. Reading activities include examples of success through community events.

Explore vocabulary such as mentorship, milestone, prototype, end-user and user-friendly. Grammar activities cover the present continuous, determiners, perfect tenses and indefinite compound pronouns in the context of the course topics.

The event provides a common thread across different IT specialisms, helping you connect language with the people who use it. You strengthen B1 comprehension and build the vocabulary needed to follow professional discussions, understand different viewpoints and learn from shared experience.

Course Two Syllabus

  • Grammar: Present Continuous. Determiners.
  • Vocabulary: Relevant, Learning Curve, Keep Up With.
  • Skills & IT Context: Community Management Welcome.
  • Vocabulary: Overcome, Pros & Cons, Mentorship, Milestone, Overwhelming.
  • Listening: Software Development Presentation. Q&A Seminar.
  • Skills & IT Context: Software Development.
  • Vocabulary: Invaluable, Push the Boundaries, Embrace, Incorporate, Prioritize, Engaging, Simplify, Prototype.
  • Listening: Game Design Presentation. Q&A Seminar.
  • Skills & IT Context: Game Design.
  • Listening: Tech Support Presentation. Q&A Seminar.
  • Vocabulary: End-user, Resonate, User-friendly, Simplicity, Empathetic.
  • Grammar: Indefinite Compound Pronouns.
  • Skills & IT Context: Tech Support.
  • Listening: Network Presentation. Q&A Seminar.
  • Grammar: Present Perfect Revision.
  • Skills & IT Context: Networking.
  • Listening: Cybersecurity Presentation. Q&A Seminar.
  • Vocabulary: Informed and Insight.
  • Grammar: Sentence Revision.
  • Skills & IT Contexts: Cybersecurity.
  • Listening: Alex Ends the Session.
  • Reading: Real Examples of Success from Community Events.
  • Grammar: Perfect Tense Uses.
  • Skills & IT Contexts: Community Management and Community Events.