🏔️ Builders: The Dialogue & Feelings Engine

A fully interactive B1.1 Storycraft skills lesson from the Builders' Studio series. Students learn to power up narrative moments with three connected engines: direct-speech punctuation (five clear rules for speech marks, capitals, end marks inside the quotes, the comma before the say-verb, and a new line per speaker), stronger say-verbs with voltage (shouted, whispered, muttered, gasped, begged and the volume/feeling each signals), and feeling beats that show emotion through the body using past continuous (Her hands were shaking) placed at mountain points. Ten key words (shout, whisper, mutter, gasp, tremble, dialogue, beat, spark, emotion, tension) appear with full B1 definitions and examples, six as review flashcards. The reading follows Aylin and Sam rebuilding a flat scene with one feeling beat and one spark of dialogue, with hover-tooltip vocabulary. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank items (say-verbs, was/were + -ing, punctuation, lesson words) with live validation, hints and scoring; speaking gives five workshop prompts plus a six-line model dialogue; the writing task asks students to rewrite one plot moment with one spark and one beat (40-70 words) against a four-point checklist with live word count and auto-save; and an 8-question quiz mixes dialogue punctuation, say-verbs and feeling beats with two comprehension questions on the reading, with progress bar, explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.