💬 Builders: The Panel Show

A fully interactive B1.1 listening-skills lesson for the Builders' Studio Opinion Architecture module. Learners warm up with four questions about panel shows and phones in school, then build a three-part listening toolkit: Catch the Stance (decide if each speaker is for, against or in the middle from their opening line), The Speaker Grid (take keyword notes in a grid and tally reasons that repeat), and Words That Signal Stance (agree, disagree and reason markers). Ten B1 panel words (panel, host, stance, debate, argument, against, audience, focus, agree, disagree) appear with full definitions and examples, and six become review flashcards. Part four is the panel-show transcript to read: host Sam and panelists Aylin (for the ban), Marco (against) and Priya (in the middle) debate whether schools should ban phones in lessons, with seven hover-tooltip words and focus as the repeated reason. Practice offers eight fill-in-the-blank items on stance and panel vocabulary with live feedback, hints and a score. Speaking gives five stance-tracking prompts and a six-line model panel; the writing task is a 40-70 word note of two people's opinions plus your own with a four-point checklist and a live word counter with auto-save; and an eight-question quiz mixes listening-for-stance skills with two transcript-comprehension questions, each with a one-sentence explanation and a saved score.