2 English for Information Technology A2-B1 Vocational English Teacher’s Book

A systems administrator’s task: deploys new 

software, looks after network security, sets up 

user accounts, updates software across an 

organisation 

Not a systems administrator’s task: designs 

databases, works on a help desk, writes 

software to sell to other companies 

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  For each item in Activity 1 that is not the task of 

a systems administrator, students, in the same 

pairs, choose a job title from page 4.  

designs databases: database administrator 

works on a help desk: help desk supervisor 

writes software to sell to other companies: 

software developer