About this course

English for IT Intermediate Part 1 (B1+)

English for IT 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 2.

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 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”.

Exam

English for IT B1+ / GSE 43-58 is a selected response English-language certification exam that tests a candidate’s ability to communicate in English at the intermediate level (CEFR B1+ / GSE 43-58). It specifically tests a candidate’s knowledge of the structure of the language (i.e. grammar, syntax, and semantics) and a candidate’s ability to read and listen in English.

The certification holder is able to read and listen within the field of IT to an intermediate level, as well as understand and effectively use all the grammar and vocabulary of the intermediate level pertaining to the field of IT, in particular the fields of software development, security engineering, network engineering, product management and customer and technical support.

Becoming certified in English for IT B1+ / GSE 43-58 ensures that the individual possesses a level of English that is sufficient to understand the English language within an IT context in simple situations, and to communicate at an intermediate level in subjects related to the field of IT. The certification furthermore enables the individual to continue to a higher level of English language learning in order to become more proficient in the use of the English language.

Once an individual has passed English for IT B1+ / GSE 43-58, he or she is ready to study English at an upper-intermediate level, and is well on the way to being ready for the upper-intermediate certification exam English for IT B2 / GSE 59-75.

More Information: English for IT B1+ / GSE 43-58 Certification

  • Channel: Edube
  • Sponsor: OpenEDG
  • Mode: Online self-study course
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Cost: Free
  • Study Time: 50 hours (Recommended: 7h/week)
  • Language: English
  • Associated Certification: English for IT B1+ / GSE 43-58 (Exam EIT-B1P-01)
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Associated courses

English for IT B2 (Intermediate)

Pre-requisites

None