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Talk, assignment or public talk?

I believe this describes all kinds of assignments.

I enter this discussion not because I am native English, but I have been in an English congregation for such a long time, that I know what a talk is, and isn't.
It is a meeting item in which one person addresses the audience. In the old Service Meeting talk also implied no audience participation.
So it is applied to public talks. When it is a student assignment, it is only given by a brother.

*** km 10/94 p. 3 Theocratic Ministry School Schedule for 1995 ***
TALK NO. 3: 5 minutes. This talk will be assigned to sisters.

since 95 the term "assignment" was used, but in our Ministry School book we also read the following:

*** be p. 284 par. 8 Guidelines for School Overseers ***
In determining which student talks to assign to brothers and which ones to sisters, ...

The question was not about the expression 'student talk'.