🎬 Explorers: I Played, I Watched

A fully interactive A2 Kids grammar lesson that opens the past-tense adventure with regular -ed verbs. Students begin with four warm-up questions about weekends, then study the language in three clear blocks: The -ed Time Machine (verb + -ed for finished yesterday-actions, one form for every person — no -s in the past), The Three Sounds of -ed (a pronunciation table sorting the lesson verbs into /t/ — watched, cooked, walked, helped; /d/ — played, listened, cleaned; and /ɪd/ — visited, with the ear-trick that only t/d endings win the extra beat, so no play-ED), and the Weekend Story Builder (time word + -ed verb sentence patterns with yesterday, last night, last weekend, on Saturday and on Sunday). Ten key items (the eight core -ed verbs plus yesterday and last weekend) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get detailed review flashcards marked with their sound group. The reading is a magazine-style Team File in which the four Team Compass explorers report their weekend — cooking soup, visiting grandma, three hours of football, drum practice and popcorn — and everything ends in a clubhouse movie night, with past verbs and key words highlighted on hover. Practice includes 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank sentences transforming base verbs into -ed pasts with live green/red validation, pronunciation hints and a running score; a speaking section with five prompts (weekend chain, mime-the-past, sound detective, Saturday vs Sunday) and a model chain dialogue; a guided 25-40 word writing task — four -ed sentences about the student's own weekend — with a four-point checklist and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixing -ed forms, the three sounds, signal words and reading comprehension, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered motivational feedback, and localStorage persistence.