🔮 Explorers: The Class Trip Plan
A fully interactive A2.1 Kids reading lesson from the Explorer Club world, built on the Going To unit. Students warm up with four questions about plans, then study a three-block Going-To Toolkit: Be Going To for plans (I/you/we/they are going to, he/she/it is going to, with a negative), Questions & Short Answers (Are you going to...? — Yes, I am / No, I'm not) and Future Time Markers (tomorrow, next Friday, at eight o'clock, after lunch, on Saturday) with a signal-word panel. Ten trip words (trip, itinerary, schedule, coach, depart, arrive, guide, souvenir, gift shop, explore) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The core reading is a magazine-style Trip File itinerary for Green Valley Nature Park in two parts (Morning Plan and Afternoon Plan), all in natural 'going to' future, with seven hover-tooltip words. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (are/is going to, at + time, aren't, buy, coach, itinerary) with live green/red validation, hints and a score; a speaking section with five day-out prompts and a six-line model dialogue between Leo and Mia; a guided 25-45 word writing task with a four-point checklist (where, time, one plan, one negative plan) and a live word counter with auto-save; and an 8-question quiz mixing going-to grammar with two comprehension questions about the itinerary, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 questions about trips and plans (next trip, next weekend, after the lesson, end of day)
- Silent thinking or pair-share format — no writing required
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Be going to for plans: We are going to visit the park; she is going to draw the waterfall
- Going-to questions and short answers: Are you going to swim? — Yes, I am / No, I'm not
- Going-to negatives: We are not going to stay; they aren't going to sit still
- Future time markers: tomorrow, next Friday, at eight o'clock, after lunch, on Saturday
- Time preposition 'at' with clock times: the coach leaves at eight o'clock
- Reading for when/what: match plans to their times and the explorer who does them
Prerequisites
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