About this course
B2 Upper-Intermediate | Course 1
English for IT B2 Upper-Intermediate | Part 1 is a course that will begin to prepare students to work in the English language field of IT. The course begins at a lower-intermediate level and takes the student to an intermediate level, and allows them to continue their education with B2 Upper-Intermediate | Course 2.
Chanel: Edube
Sponsor: OpenEDG
Mode: Online self-study course
Level: Upper-Intermediate
Cost: Free
Study time: 50 hours (Recommended: 7h/week)
The English for IT course and certification exam have been designed specifically to prepare students for the world of work.
It is aimed at the following non-native English speaking target audiences:
- late-stage K12 and Higher Education students and IT professionals early in their careers;
- software developers, network engineers, security engineers, product managers and IT support who want to work in an international, multicultural environment;
- IT specialists who want to start working in multinational or English-speaking companies;
- non-IT employees working in the IT sector.
You will learn:
- Interpret and implement instructions
- Construct requests for information and feedback
- Update colleagues on work-related topics
- Incorporate goals and objectives into their working environment
- Defend a point of view
- Identify concerns about an issue, a product or service, or a business situation
- Examine key information from conversations
- Participating in discussions and conversations, exchanging information when necessary
- Analyze and prioritize opinions and recommendations
- Analyze factual information from various sources
- Evaluate information from various sources
- Identify a problem and its cause, and identify solutions
Course One Syllabus
Learn about the passive voice, relative pronouns, the past simple, user experiences and supplier evaluation modules.
Learn about the emphatic “do” and dependent prepositions, and listen to a conversation between a manager and a junior network engineer. Read about networking job roles and responsibilities.
Understand how to start a sentence with a conjunction, how to use inversion and how to use modal verbs to make suggestions and give advice. Listen to a software engineer talk about the benefits of experience, and read about the benefits and drawbacks of compilers and interpreters.
Learn how to use adverbs to make polite requests and some of the most important idioms in English. Listen to customer support agents using idioms and read about how to ask customers questions.
Learn about the imperative instruction, and adverbs of possibility and probability, listen to a security engineer discussing fraudulent calls, and read about the necessity of an information security policy.
Understand the future perfect tense and how to use the phrase "was/were on the point of". Listen to an interview with a security officer discussing his roles and responsibilities, and read about a software virus called “Pegasus”.