🦸 Explorers: My Weekend News

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids writing lesson from the Explorer Club world, closing the Irregular Heroes unit with integrated past production. Four warm-up questions activate weekend recall, then a language-focus section teaches three moves: mixing regular past (play→played, visit→visited) with irregular heroes (go→went, see→saw); making negatives with didn't + base verb (Zeynep didn't take her camera — not 'didn't took'); and starting news with time phrases (last weekend, on Saturday, on Sunday morning, after that). Ten key words — news, reporter, headline, weekend, won, visited, then, after that, studio, band — appear with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six become flashcards. The reading, a ~100-word Team Compass 'Weekend News' broadcast, models the mix of regular and irregular past plus a didn't line, with hover-tooltip glosses. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank items (regular past, irregular past, didn't, was) with live validation, hints and a score. A richer speaking section runs a news-desk broadcast with 5 prompts and a model 5-line dialogue; a guided 25–45 word writing task builds the learner's own 5-line weekend news with a four-point checklist (time phrase, a regular verb, an irregular hero, a didn't line) and a live word counter with auto-save; and an 8-question quiz mixes regular/irregular past, negatives and time phrases with two reading-comprehension questions, with progress bar, explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.