🎭 Explorers: Props & Stagecraft

A fully interactive A2 Kids Adventure Showcase 'Make' lesson that turns the whole A2.1 course into stage production. Students begin with four warm-up questions about their team's play, then open the Stagecraft Kit toolkit in three blocks: Props & Backdrop Plan (saying what you are going to make, with some/any for materials and a prop checklist), Blocking: Where to Stand (a place-word table — centre stage, stage left/right, front, back, next to, behind), and Safe & Tidy Making (must/mustn't team rules plus can for asking permission). Ten stagecraft words (prop, backdrop, stage, scene, blocking, costume, narrator, actor, spotlight, cue) appear in a scrollable table and six get review flashcards. The magazine-style reading, Backstage File No. 3, follows Team Compass making props and blocking a scene, recycling past tense, going to and some/any with hover-tooltip vocabulary. Practice offers 8 single-word fill-in-the-blank items (going to, some/any, must/mustn't, past verbs, lesson words) with live validation, hints and a score; speaking gives five planning prompts and a five-line Team Compass model dialogue; the writing task is a 25-45 word stagecraft plan with a four-point checklist (props with going to, needs with some/any, stage position, one rule) and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question quiz mixes going to, some/any, must/mustn't, past tense and two reading-comprehension questions, with progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.