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English for IT – B1 Course 2

English for IT – B1 Course 2 is the second course in a two-part English for IT sequence for learners working toward CEFR B1 / Global Scale of English (GSE) 43–58. The course helps learners continue developing practical English skills for communication in IT-related workplaces through instructional videos, reading, listening, and structured language practice.


This course develops essential English language skills through realistic IT contexts such as Project Management, Software Development, Data Analysis, UX/UI Design, Machine Learning, AI Prompting, and Cloud Development.

Learners practise practical vocabulary, functional grammar, and everyday communication scenarios that support clear and effective collaboration in technology-focused environments.

Through structured listening, reading, and language activities, learners build confidence in areas such as tracking projects, discussing workflows, understanding customer needs, explaining data quality, comparing digital tools, and asking effective technical questions.

The course strengthens learners’ ability to communicate at B1 level while introducing industry-relevant terminology and communication strategies through realistic workplace roles, tasks, conversations, presentations, and written exchanges.

Narrative themes connect the different jobs and scenarios. Listening and reading activities include workplace conversations, project updates, presentations, customer discussions, and problem-solving situations involving people from different IT roles who collaborate, analyse information, improve systems, and respond to technical challenges.

Course 2 Syllabus

  • Grammar: Cause and effect with “because of”.
  • Reading: Tracking a project; the Agile and Waterfall methods.
  • Vocabulary: Sprint, debugging, functionalities.
  • Skills & IT Context: Tracking work in Project Management and Software Development.
  • Vocabulary: Workload, divide.
  • Listening: Project timelines.
  • Grammar: Forming adjectives with common prefixes and suffixes.
  • Reading: Teamwork and communication.
  • Skills & IT Context: Discussing timelines and communication in Project Management.
  • Grammar: Adjectives ending in “-ed” and “-ing”; transitive verbs.
  • Reading: Customer needs.
  • Vocabulary: Pull together, put together, turn things around.
  • Listening: Talking to customers.
  • Skills & IT Context: Monitoring projects and understanding customer needs.
  • Vocabulary: Variables, overwhelming, thorough.
  • Grammar: Determiners: some, enough, and too; relative clauses with when, where, who, which, and what.
  • Reading: Data analysis; the cloud and flexibility.
  • Skills & IT Context: Discussing quality in Data Analysis and Cloud Development.
  • Listening: Network performance.
  • Grammar: Present perfect for experiences and present reference; phrases with gerunds.
  • Reading: How Data Analysis supports workers; UX/UI Design and a new app.
  • Skills & IT Context: Discussing analysis problems in Data Analysis and UX/UI Design.
  • Grammar: Regular and irregular adjective forms; comparatives and superlatives; infinitives after common adjectives.
  • Listening: UI Design presentation.
  • Reading: UX/UI Design and Machine Learning.
  • Skills & IT Context: Describing development in UX/UI Design and Machine Learning.
  • Grammar: Modal verbs for impossibility and inability in the past.
  • Reading/Listening: Machine Learning and making predictions; AI Prompting and learning to ask the right questions.
  • Skills & IT Context: Asking effective questions in Machine Learning, AI Prompting, UX/UI Design, and Cloud Development.
  • Reading/Listening: Cloud Development; cloud flexibility.
  • Grammar: Passive voice with past and present forms; transitive verbs; prepositions followed by gerunds.
  • Skills & IT Context: Discussing improvements in Cloud Development.


  • Chanel: Edube
  • Sponsor: OpenEDG
  • Mode: Online self-study course
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Cost: USD 25
  • Study time: 15h
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