Unit 4: IT Careers

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In this unit students will learn about popular IT career roles and their responsibilities.

Did you know? The following activities can be customized as desired by the teacher or school pedagogue.

Basic activities (computer-graded)

Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students will learn the following key terms and phrases:

Reading Activity: Choosing an IT Career Path

Students will be able to correctly answer true/false questions after reading and listening to topical short articles and dialogs featuring topical vocabulary.

Most people on English4IT.com are either studying for their first job in IT, or else trying to improve their current IT career. If this is the case with you, well then this unit should really help. Sometimes the hardest part of meeting a goal is to properly define what you are trying to accomplish in the first place. In this article we we will discuss the top IT job positions available around the world… Continue

Multiple Choice Activity

Students will be able to select the best match between unit terms and their definitions.

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Listening Comprehension Activity

Students will be able to listen to short audio clips in English and then spell them correctly.

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Spelling and Recognition

Students will be able to identify and spell a vocabulary term correctly given only the definition.

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Advanced activities (optionally teacher-graded)

Speaking Practice Activity

Students will be able to speak and record 5 example sentences from the unit vocabulary and then submit them for grading by the classroom teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the students will be shown good examples of other students' work.

A business analyst spends a lot of time gathering relevant business requirements in the initial stages of an IT project.

Software developers often specialize in a specific software framework or paradigm such as Java applications, Python, or CSS.

An IT support engineer must be able to troubleshoot and fix almost any hardware, software, or network problem that can affect an end user's PC.

Software project managers are increasingly turning to Scrum and other Agile practices to get good results from their teams.

The QA manager organized a massive usability test to try to squash bugs before the software's release date.

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Writing Practice Activity

Students will write a short essay to be graded by the teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the student is shown previous examples of other writings by students.

Which of the listed careers would you like to pursue? Why?

Research three more IT job positions not listed in this unit reading. Write a short description about the roles and responsibilities.

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