📖 Explorers: The Reading Trail

A fully interactive A2 Kids reading lesson — the first real reading mission of the Explorer level, designed so every child succeeds. Students begin with four picture-prediction warm-up questions, then collect two reading tools: the Text-Attack Plan (a four-step strategy shown as formula chips — read the text, find the key word, underline the answer, answer in a full sentence — plus a detective-tips panel: read the questions first, don't panic about new words, names start with big letters, numbers jump out) and the Wh-Question Radar (a five-row table mapping what, who, where, how old and what's-her-favourite to the kind of fact each one hunts). Ten text-attack words (read, find, underline, text, profile, fact, fun fact, question, answer, clue) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style Profile Trail with four cards of about 40 words each — Aisha from Kenya, Marco from Italy, Yuki from Japan and Sam from Canada — written only with known structures (am/is/are, have got, can, present simple), each ending in a fun fact, with key vocabulary highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 fact-hunting fill-in-the-blank questions mixing strategy words and facts from the cards, with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section where partners trade cards and quiz each other with five wh-question prompts and a model quiz-master dialogue; a guided 25-40 word writing task — an own profile card with a four-point checklist (name+age, place, have got + can, fun fact) — with a live word counter, auto-save and a read-it-to-your-family home mission; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered motivational feedback, and localStorage persistence.