🏋️ Horizon: Spontaneity Gym
The studio becomes a gym: a topic pool, two timers and escalating rounds. Learners watch Coach Deniz model a ninety-second surprise talk with a think-aloud, then train the three machines of spontaneous speaking — bridge phrases that buy time, a ten-second framework that gives any talk a spine, and fronted sentence shapes that create planning seconds. Marco, who froze in September, reaches seventy-four seconds on the topic of socks.
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Lesson Plan
- What surprise questions do to you
- Why chatting is easy but topics are scary
- Rate your speaking stamina
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Bridge phrases (Off the top of my head…, Let me see…, That’s a good question…) replace silent hesitation with real language
- Fronted pseudo-cleft shapes buy planning time: What surprises me about this topic is… + the idea still being formed
- The Point → Reason → Example → Landing framework organises a 90-second talk under pressure
- Discourse landings close a talk cleanly: Which is why I’d say… / So all in all…
