📋 Builders: Our Guide for New Students

A fully interactive B1.1 Project planning lesson (writing) from the Builders' Studio series for teens (ages 10-13). Teams scope a real Survival Guide for next year's incoming class, so the audience and the stakes are genuine. Part 2 is a planning toolkit: Scope the Guide starts from the reader's worries to choose sections (Getting Around, Homework Hacks, Making Friends, Teacher Tips and more); Share the Jobs teaches the three futures by function — going to for plans, will for offers, present continuous for arrangements — alongside team roles (editor, writer, designer, interviewer, fact-checker); and Map the Timeline sequences the work (first, next, then, after that, finally) with deadlines. Ten project words (guide, section, deadline, editor, draft, audience, brainstorm, role, layout, survival) appear in a scrollable table and six on flashcards. The reading is The Planning Meeting, in which Aylin, Priya, Marco and Sam choose sections, share roles and set a timeline, with eight hover-tooltip words. Practice is 8 fill-in-the-blanks on project vocabulary and future forms with live checking, hints and a score. Speaking gives five planning prompts and a model six-line dialogue where the team assigns jobs using all three futures. The writing task is a 40-70 word project plan (section, role, a going-to plan, a will offer and a deadline) with a four-point checklist, a live word counter and localStorage auto-save. The quiz has 8 questions — future forms and planning vocabulary plus two comprehension questions on the reading — with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.