📖 Builders: The Reading Circle Cycle

A fully interactive B1.1 Word Lab task lesson (the Builders' Studio series) that runs the class as reading circles. After four warm-up questions about how we read, students meet the reading-circle toolkit: what a circle is (read alone, prepare your role, share and discuss, then rotate), a four-role map in a rules table (summariser, word detective, question maker, connector), and a bank of sentence starters plus graceful response moves for each role. Ten key words (summariser, word detective, question maker, connector, summary, context, infer, connection, role, discuss) appear in a scrollable table with full B1 definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a 150-word scene of the Builders' Studio cast — Priya, Sam, Aylin and Marco — running a circle on an article about a boy who builds a robot, each modelling one role, with key words highlighted on hover. Practice offers eight contextualised fill-in-the-blank items on the four roles and the strategy words (summariser, context, detective, infer, connector, summary, maker, role) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five role prompts and a six-line model circle; a guided 40-70 word writing task in which students play the connector for a text of their own choice, with a four-point checklist and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixing role and strategy questions with two comprehension questions on the reading, featuring a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback, and localStorage persistence.