📖 Explorers: Our Team Story

A fully interactive A2 Kids speaking lesson that closes the Story Workshop unit by turning children into storytellers. Students begin with four warm-up questions about favourite stories, then study the Storyteller Toolkit in three clear blocks: Story Bones (the four sequencers First, Then, After that, Finally to order a beginning, middle and ending), Story Feelings (was/were + a feeling word such as scared, excited or proud), and Story Sparks (one line of direct speech like 'Look, a map!' he shouted). Ten key words (story, character, beginning, ending, adventure, scared, surprised, excited, proud, shouted) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style Story File — a six-line cave adventure starring Team Compass (Zeynep, Leo, Mia, Kofi) that models every tool in natural past tense, with key vocabulary highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (sequencers, was/were, said/shouted, feeling words) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five build-your-story prompts and a model five-line team dialogue; a guided 25-45 word writing task with a four-point checklist mirroring the story structure and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixing sequencers, was/were, direct speech and two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback, and localStorage persistence.