⭐ Builders: The Experience Collector

A fully interactive B1.1 Builders' Studio reading lesson that teaches two transferable strategies inside the Present Perfect module: form-mining (hunting a text for one grammar shape) and inference (reading between the lines). Students begin with four warm-up questions about bucket lists and finding information quickly, then study a two-tool Reading Toolkit: Tool 1 shows how to mine a text for present perfect (has/have + past participle), with a panel of signal words to hunt for (ever, never, just, already, yet, so far, in my life); Tool 2 defines inference as clue + what you know = a smart guess, and warns that a guess with no clue is only an opinion. Ten key words (collection, bucket list, experience, adventure, goal, inference, clue, achieve, so far, tick off) appear in a scrollable table with full B1 definitions and examples, six as review flashcards. The reading, 'The Woman Who Collects Experiences', is a Studio blog post in which Priya interviews her Aunt Meera, who has swum with dolphins, slept in a desert and cooked in three countries; the text is dense with perfect forms (has visited, haven't been yet, has just begun) and carries one clear inference (she values experiences over objects). Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blanks drawn from the text (swum, has, yet, just, never, list, inference, so) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five bucket-list prompts and a six-line model dialogue between Sam and Aylin; a guided 40-70 word writing task in which students draft their own bucket list with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question quiz (six on perfect forms and inference, two on the reading) with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback, and localStorage persistence.