📣 Horizon: The Story Slam
Slam night at the studio. The rubric goes up like a law — orchestra, peak, delivery, landing, five points each — and performance order comes out of a bicycle helmet. Learners study the two-minute architecture (past-continuous hook, past-simple engine, one past-perfect flashback, one engineered peak, a rehearsed landing line), master the four delivery dials of pause, volume, gesture and eye contact, and learn the rescue move for a blank mind. Then they polish, rehearse, perform without paper, and judge each other with praise that names a technique.
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Lesson Plan
- Telling vs performing
- Boring stories about amazing events
- What should a judge reward?
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- The slam hook uses past continuous to freeze a scene while one strange detail raises a question (It was raining sideways, and I was standing outside the wrong house…)
- The story engine runs on past simple — one action per beat drives the plot forward
- Exactly one flashback line built on had + past participle drops the backstory without stopping the engine (My cousin had moved house twice that year)
- The suspense peak keeps the s45 toolkit: shrinking sentences, one impossible detail, a two-second pause before the reveal
- Landing lines close the loop with the hook and are rehearsed word-perfect
Prerequisites
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