🎭 Showcase: Polish & Rehearse
A fully interactive A2 Kids performance lesson that closes the level's two-part showcase: students polish their six-frame adventure books and rehearse performing them. Four warm-up games wake up voices and hands (saying hello three ways, family storytellers, favourite frames, the too-fast storyteller). The storyteller toolkit has two blocks: The Editing Checklist (read aloud → find → fix, with a five-row table of checks and example fixes — I go → I went, adding First/Then, capitals and full stops, a 'Suddenly' before the problem, matching sentences to pictures — plus the conference goals panel: one tense fix and one wow-moment per child) and Storyteller Superpowers (voice big for problems and soft for quiet parts, a one-second pause before the big moment, gestures that show the action, and the don'ts: hiding behind the book, speaking too fast). Ten performance words (rehearse, edit, mistake, voice, whisper, pause, gesture, audience, performance, invitation) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions, and six get review flashcards. The reading — The Day We Practised Everything (~240 words) — follows Team Compass through editing, a flat-vs-alive teacher demo, three technique stations and a dress rehearsal, with nine hover-tooltip definitions. Practice is an 8-question Be the Editor round: fixing goed/seed/finded to went/saw/found, adding Suddenly, and completing performance vocabulary, with live green/red validation, hints and a score. Speaking offers five rehearsal games (flat vs alive, voice station, pause station, gesture station, dress rehearsal with one-star-one-wish feedback) plus a model feedback dialogue. The writing task is the homework made real: a 25-40 word show invitation with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save. The final 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixes editing, past-tense fixes, technique vocabulary and two comprehension questions on the reading, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 storyteller warm-ups: saying 'Hello, explorers!' three ways, family storytellers, favourite frames
- Ends with a think-question about speaking too fast and how the audience feels
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- The editing checklist for stories: past verbs, sequencers, capital letters and full stops, checked frame by frame
- Fixing common past-tense slips: goed → went, seed → saw, finded → found
- Performed past narrative: telling a finished story aloud with First, Then and Finally, and 'Suddenly' before the problem
- Storyteller techniques: big/soft voice, a one-second pause before the climax, gestures that show the action
- Past simple with regular -d/-ed in performance talk: rehearsed, practised, edited, clapped
- Feedback language: one star and one wish (Your dragon voice was amazing; pause before the big moment)
Prerequisites
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