🎧 Builders: The Interview Listen

A fully interactive B1.1 Media Lab listening lesson from the Builders' Studio series for teens (ages 10-13). Students learn to follow a fast teen interview in three layers. Part 2 is a listening toolkit: Listen in Three Layers teaches facts (true and checkable), opinions (personal views) and inference (a sensible guess from clues plus logic, always backed by evidence); a Fact-or-Opinion box trains the ear on signal words (numbers, names and places for facts; honestly, I think, my favourite, the best for opinions); and the Listening Protocol table walks through five passes — gist, fact, opinion, inference check, and defend it. Ten key words (interview, interviewer, fact, opinion, inference, evidence, detail, gist, quote, honestly) appear in a scrollable table and six on review flashcards. The reading is a Studio FM transcript: a two-minute interview with Aylin, 13, who runs her school film club, packed with facts, a clear opinion and material to infer, with seven hover-tooltip glossary words. Practice is 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blanks with live validation, hints and a running score. Speaking gives five interview prompts and a model six-line dialogue between Marco and Priya showing how to catch two facts, one opinion and one checked inference. The writing task is a 40-70 word listening report (two facts, one opinion, one inference, plus evidence) with a four-point checklist, a live word counter and localStorage auto-save. The lesson closes with an 8-question multiple-choice quiz — fact vs opinion vs inference plus two comprehension questions on the interview — featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback, and localStorage persistence.