📖 Explorers: Faces & Feelings

A fully interactive A2.1 Kids storytelling lesson from the Explorer Club world. Children learn to bring past narration to life by adding feelings with was and were. Four warm-up questions activate real memories of being excited, nervous, scared and proud. The language focus has three blocks: Feelings in the Past (was/were + feeling adjective, with negatives wasn't/weren't and questions Were you...?), The Feeling Turn (how a story turns from one feeling to another using first/then/suddenly), and a Was or Were? reference table. Ten feeling words (scared, surprised, excited, worried, proud, nervous, calm, sad, cheerful, amazed) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six are reviewed as flashcards. The reading, The Dark Cave, is a Team Compass adventure that turns from excitement to fear to surprise to pride, with key feeling words highlighted on hover. Practice offers eight contextualised fill-in-the-blank questions (was/were, sequencers, feeling words) with live green/red feedback and hints. A speaking section gives five prompts and a five-line model dialogue where Mia and Leo retell a park story with feelings. A guided 25-45 word writing task builds a feeling story with a four-point checklist and a live word counter with auto-save, and an eight-question quiz mixes was/were grammar with two reading-comprehension questions, a progress bar, per-question explanations and a result circle with tiered feedback.