English for IT Intermediate Part 1

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 43-58 certification exam, which will show potential employers that you are able to read, listen and understand the English language in an IT context at an intermediate level.

The main goal of this course is to take you from a lower-intermediate 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 customer and technical support representatives.

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Designed for Students

English for IT 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 English for IT Intermediate Part 2.

The English for IT course and certification exam have been designed specifically to prepare students for the world of work.

You can take the course by yourself or as part of a program with an instructor or teacher.

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

Aligned to English For IT B1+ / GSE 43-58 Certification Exam

The English for IT Intermediate Part 1 Course is 100% aligned to the EIT-B1P-0x certification exam, available through Edube.org.

The exam covers the following objectives:

  • 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 Contents

The first English for IT course starts at the lower-intermediate level (Common European Framework Reference B1 / Global Scale of English 43), and will take you up to the intermediate level B1+ / GSE 58.

In this course, you will:

  • use the passive voice, the past simple, and the applications of the future perfect simple and the future perfect continuous tenses
  • understand relative pronouns, adverbs, modal verbs and the Imperative Instruction
  • understand dependent prepositions and the Emphatic Do and its uses
  • understand how inversion works and how to use conjunctions to start a sentence
  • understand the concepts of an Information Security Policy and supplier evaluation modules
  • understand the concepts of job roles and responsibilities, relating to polite requests, expressing frustration, and adding seriousness
  • understand idiomatic phrases in the context of a Customer Support situation and applications in IT scenarios
  • use vocabulary related to user experience, fraudulent calls, Network Engineering, and Software Engineering
  • absorb information relating to compilers and interpreters
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For teachers, schools, and training organizations

The English for IT 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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