🧩 Horizon: Final Talk Assembly
The building stops today. Learners run the final assembly checklist (topic locked, architecture complete, visual ready), master the abstract genre — present simple, exact nouns, one why-listen line, about forty words — and learn the programme language real conferences use: session, chair, running order, Q&A slot. The crew’s abstracts go up under the blank programme page, the chairs finalise the running order, and everyone leaves with three opening lines to memorise before Delivery Peak Training.
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Lesson Plan
- Your talk in one sentence — no restarts
- How a film poster condenses two hours
- Finished vs final
- The performance you still remember
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Abstract genre grammar: present simple to describe the talk itself (This talk explores / argues / asks…)
- Passive for official notices: The running order was finalised on Thursday — focus on the decision, not the person
- Reduced -ing clauses in abstracts: Drawing on interviews with three serial quitters, it argues that…
- Exact-noun discipline: replacing my topic / some things with precise noun phrases the reader can picture
