🎥 Explorers: The Strange Night

A fully interactive A2.2 Kids reading lesson that turns past continuous comprehension into detective work. Explorer Club masters read a midnight mystery, track who was doing what, and catch the liar from the clues. The reading toolkit has two strategy blocks: Track Who Was Doing What (follow each person's name and action, with a who-did-what chart) and Spot the Liar (a three-step method — read each story, check the clues, find the story that can't be true — plus a clue-and-time words panel). Ten mystery words (strange, midnight, noise, shadow, torch, awake, footsteps, liar, truth, suspicious) appear in a scrollable table with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a 116-word Mystery File: a strange noise wakes the camp at midnight, three explorers give their stories, and the clues (wet shoes, a torch left on) reveal that Leo was lying — with six hover-tooltip words. Practice offers eight contextualised fill-in-the-blank items drawn from the story (was/were, wasn't, -ing forms and key words) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score. Speaking gives five case-solving prompts and a model five-line dialogue where two explorers explain how they caught the liar. The writing task asks learners to retell the mystery in 30–50 words with a four-point checklist and a live word counter with auto-save. A full eight-question quiz blends reading comprehension, spot-the-liar reasoning, past continuous grammar and a reading-strategy question, offering a progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.