English for IT specialists and programmers
About course
Are you interested in the ways the IT industry works, what types of IT companies are there and what their specifics are? Do you want to know how to introduce yourself, if you work for an IT company? If you have answered “yes” for all the questions above, then this course about the IT industry is just for you.
You will have learned:
- the ways IT companies are structured and talk about it in English;
- what various professions exist in the IT sphere, which duties, skills and responsibilities each of them requires.
- how to talk about yourself and your profession in English - starting from a self-presentation guideline to what is recommended to say on your job interview.
This course will help you gain insight about the IT segment, better understand this great world of geeks and coding geniuses, and find your place in it.
This course contains all the necessary vocabulary items to talk about IT in English.
- Level: Intermediate
- 150 minutes
- 5 lessons
- Teacher's language: English
- Interactive exercises
- Flashcards
- Tests
Course program
5 LESSONS
Types of ІТ companies
You will have read a text that explains what types of companies exist in the IT industry. There are tasks that help memorise the vocabulary following the text.
Job titles
Short reading exercise, which presents 3 types of jobs. You will learn new vocabulary and practise the vocabulary items in exercises.
Jobs and responsibilities
You will have learned how duties and responsibilities are distributed in the IT sphere. You will complete exercises that will help you solidify the knowledge of the new vocabulary.
How to write a self-presentation speech
Vocabulary items that help you to present yourself and exercises aimed at memorising and practising the new vocabulary.
Self-presentation speeches
You will study different phrases and other vocabulary items that are necessary for self presentation, and you will complete the exercises that are designed to practise the vocabulary.
Who is this course for
Those who wish to both improve their English and understand the IT sphere.
Those who are interested in getting a job in the IT industry, but would like to figure out their possible place in the diverse IT industry.
Those of you who are already a part of IT but would like to talk about the IT sphere in English.
What will you get after the course
Having covered this course, you will have learned about the types of IT companies, what jobs are relevant for the IT market, what skills you need to develop to get a certain job and last, but not least, how to talk about all of this in English.
- Level: Intermediate
- 150 minutes
- 5 lessons
- Teacher's language: English
- Interactive exercises
- Flashcards
- Tests
- access to all 185 courses on the platform, except for the English PRO series
- 3 - 5 new courses every month
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- unlimited studying for the selected period