This course will help you improve your vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and listening skills based on natural, relevant, and practical examples from the IT field. The textbook is designed with a focus on British English and simulates real situations faced by programmers in international teams.
Course Topics:
- Coding
- Action verbs, imperative mood, keyboard symbols, and syntax
- Code Review and Testing
- Nominal constructions, parallel structure, cohesive speech, and code analysis
- Code Discussion
- Definitions, word order, verbs with -ed, and the ChatGPT case
- Bug Fixing
- Phrasal verbs, passive voice, word stress, and daily stand-ups
- Collaboration and Meetings
- Idioms, active voice, common pronunciation errors, and retrospectives
- Exercises and Answers
- Knowledge check and progress tracking