🧱 Builders: The Vocabulary Notebook System

The second Launchpad lesson gives B1.1 builders the tool that carries the whole course: a real vocabulary notebook system. Part two is a three-part strategy toolkit. First, the Four-Part Entry — every new word gets a word, a real example sentence, a friend-word (a stored connection) and a tiny picture — shown with formula chips, four worked example rows and golden rules. Second, a Weak-vs-Strong notebook table from a real 'notebook autopsy', contrasting word-plus-translation lists with full, reviewed entries. Third, a friend-word panel offering five connection types: synonym, opposite, word family, a phrase it lives in, and translation kept last. Ten study words (entry, example, connection, friend-word, synonym, opposite, review, translation, meaning, memory) come with full B1 definitions and examples, and six become flashcards. The reading is a 138-word Notebook File in which Priya shows her four-part system to Marco and Sam, with seven hover-tooltip words. Practice is eight fill-in-the-blanks on the system's vocabulary with live validation and hints. Speaking gives five prompts plus a model six-line dialogue building the word 'gigantic'; the guided 40-70 word writing task asks students to draft two complete four-part entries from words that caught their ear, with a four-point checklist and live word counter; and an eight-question quiz mixes the notebook system with two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.