Course Curriculum
Professional Fluency - 2025 June (Inaugural Semester)
Welcome to Sesame Seed Learning! At Sesame Seed Learning, we aim to help you achieve your English speaking goals by providing you with live, interactive English training.
The Professional Fluency Course will focus on phrases commonly used by professionals. Pronunciation will be given paramount attention, with the goal of attaining a clearly understandable pronunciation of these commonly used professional phrases. Accent reduction may be an additional goal, but completely eliminating an accent is not always necessary (in fact, accents help make us unique!). Being clearly understood is the major objective because the lack of such will lead to less successful professional interactions. Whatever level you are at, we hope you will find this course very beneficial to improving your clarity of speech and your comprehension by other professionals.
Methodology:
The Professional Fluency course will work on the mastery of 5-10 phrases each class period. The phrases focused on will be from among the most frequently used phrases used by professionals. While there will be some time dedicated to the review of previous phrases, most of the time in each class will be focused on the new phrases for each day - making these classes modular and independent, benefiting those who may not be able to attend all classes.
Typical Class Outline:
Each class will be held for 50 minutes. The beginning of each class will typically include an enlightening 5-minute cultural exploration - you won’t want to be late! A typical class may consist of the following:
Cultural Exploration (5 minutes)
Review of Phrases from Previous Days and Optional Assignments (5 minutes)
Introduction of 5-10 New Phrases (10 minutes)
Group Breakouts/Individual Assessments with Instructor (25 minutes)
Wrap-up (5 minutes)
Requirements:
Classes will be taught live via Zoom in English. Students must have a stable internet connection and be capable of handling a Zoom connection. For the Professional Fluency course, students must have an intermediate or advanced knowledge of English. Audio must be utilized throughout the class period. At times, students may need to pause their video, which is acceptable. It is understood that at times circumstances may cause students to arrive late to class - you are always welcome to join, but you will want to be on time as often as you can to not miss the beginning cultural exploration portion. Additional requirements are found in the Student Agreement, Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions pages.
Additional Outside Classroom Work:
Students will be provided with additional optional work that can be performed outside of the class periods. This additional work will provide students with the opportunity to work on additional phrases and words which will expand their abilities. Some of this material may be briefly reviewed during class periods, but will not receive major attention to the degree the regular words/phrases will.
Certificate of Completion:
Those attending 80% or more of the classes for any given course will receive a certificate of completion. Once 4 certificates have been earned, a 1-year Diploma Certificate will also be awarded.
Instructional Delivery:
It is expected that most of the classes will be delivered live via Zoom by the listed Instructor. However, there may be occasional classes that must be taught by a substitute Instructor or a particular class may be canceled completely or a particular class will be replaced by another class offered at the same time but on a different day (e.g. Saturday). This is expected to happen rarely if ever, but Sesame Seed Learning, LLC reserves the right to make such changes. Students will be reimbursed for the cost of a single class in the case that a single class is ever completely canceled or that the modified class day can not be attended by the student.