🧭 Explorers: The Past Talk Marathon

A fully interactive A2.2 Kids fluency-and-speaking lesson that trains sustained past-tense talk. Learners warm up with four questions, then open a three-part fluency toolkit: the Filler Words Toolbox (well, and then, so, after that, you know as thinking-time words), Talk in the Past (regular -ed and irregular go/went, eat/ate for weekend stories), and the 60-Second Rule (a pyramid strategy that grows a talk from 30 to 60 seconds with a golden never-stop rule). Ten fluency words (fluency, filler, well, and then, so, after that, pause, moment, chain, endurance) appear in a scrollable table and six get review flashcards. The reading is a model 60-second talk by Kofi about last weekend, packed with fillers and past-simple verbs, with hover-tooltip vocabulary to imitate. Practice offers eight fill-in-the-blank items (fillers and irregular past verbs) with live validation and hints; speaking gives a talk-pyramid task with five prompts and a model fluency dialogue; the writing task is a 30-50 word written version of the 60-second talk with a four-point checklist; and an eight-question quiz mixes fillers, past-simple verbs and two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.