IT Office Talk (Intermediate)
IT Office Talk (Intermediate)
This course contains 10 one-on-one lessons with a professional native Chinese teacher and prepares intermediate learners for a wide range of practical areas of modern Chinese life.
What You’ll Get:
10 live, one-on-one online lessons, 60 minutes each, targeted at your level
One carefully selected topic with accompanying dialog for each lesson
Grammar points which match the material and suit the discussion
Vocabulary tracking based on what you actually cover with our teachers
Experienced, trained AllSet Learning teachers patiently guiding you and encouraging you to talk
Topics Covered in This Course
Presented at the intermediate (B1) level, this course includes a good amount of IT-specific vocabulary while still keeping the overall difficulty level relatively low. A lot of the vocabulary in this course will be too technical for the average learner, but the surrounding language is still accessible.
What this 10-Lesson Discussion Course covers:
Job Introductions: For when you need to communicate with other IT professionals about what you actually do. Includes common vocabulary for positions in IT companies.
“9-9-6“ Work Hours: If you’re dealing with Chinese IT companies, you need to be familiar with the hellish work hours that many of them put in on a regular basis.
Business Trips: Maybe not every programmer goes on frequent business trips, but when managers and bosses do, everyone is affected.
Software and Hardware: Discussions on work computers and work software permeate the discussions of all IT professionals, so make sure you have the basics down.
Access and Security: So every employee has root access to the production server? Uh oh… you might need to have this discussion.
Working from Home: Sometimes it’s necessary (especially in 2020!). How does the manager feel about it? It’s an important discussion.
The Server Is Down: All companies, big and small, suffer from occasional downtime issues. When you’re scrambling to get your service back online, communication is critical.
China’s Tech Giants: Have you heard of BAT? Do you know that Baidu is out and ByteDance is in? It’s good to know a bit about the corporate landscape in the world of Chinese IT.
FOSS, GIT, and Repositories: A little discussion about code can’t be avoided.
Career Advancement: As a senior developer, do you make the leap to management or keep doing your coding thing?
HOW YOU WILL STUDY EACH LESSON
Your assignment for each lesson will be posted to the AllSet Learning Hub, our platform for managing our clients' studies. There you will see what you need to prepare in advance, as well as the exact material (one new topic with dialog in each lesson) your teacher will cover with you during each lesson.
In each 60-minute lesson, the following material will be covered by your teachers:
Vocabulary and Grammar Review (from your previous lessons)
New Topic with Dialog (using our flexible 3-tier system--see below)
Sum-up and Assess (can we move on to the next module, or do you need to keep working on this one? ...plus integrated pronunciation feedback.)
OUR ADAPTIVE 3-TIER SYSTEM
Every learner can't be at the exact same level, so we can't simply design a course for the "ideal" learner. Instead, we've designed a flexible 3-tier system which gives the lower-level learners more practice with the basic reading skills, and the higher-level learners more time practicing speaking.
Dialog Content. We start with these realistic exchanges to provide social context and relevant vocabulary. These are not long, but they're a good place to start if the topic is not super familiar to you. When the topic is quite familiar, this should go quite quickly and smoothly.
Vocabulary and Grammar Practice. If you understand what you've read, you may have a passive familiarity with the words and patterns in the chapter. Some of the vocabulary includes common but newly coined terms, however, so don't be surprised if you've never encountered it. These modules are designed to make sure you can actually use them to express your own ideas.
Guided Discussion. Finally, you'll be expected to share your ideas and experiences related to the main topic. It's a great chance to share your views on current trends, and to learn about how the teacher applies technology in his or her daily life in China. Your teacher will encourage you to use the vocabulary and grammar covered today, and to correct you as needed.
OUR TEACHERS
All of AllSet Learning's teachers have been trained by John Pasden in person in Shanghai. They encourage communication, correct pronunciation, and hold our clients to a higher standard. They're also quite engaging to talk to!
To guarantee flexibility and schedule coverage as full as possible, each of our clients will have multiple teachers. Teachers coordinate and follow their clients' studies through the AllSet Learning Hub.
LESSON POLICIES
We offer flexible scheduling and a money-back guarantee. Check out the details on our policies here.
