⏰ Explorers: Where Were You?
A fully interactive A2.1 Kids grammar lesson from the Explorer Club 'Was/Were' unit. Students master the whole was/were paradigm as a detective's toolkit: forming questions by putting Was (one) or Were (many/you) first, giving two-word short answers (Yes, I was / No, they weren't), and using the negatives wasn't and weren't. Part 2 teaches with three blocks (Asking Questions, Short Answers & Negatives, and a full-paradigm table) using formula chips, colour-coded examples and a reminder panel. Ten detective words (detective, alibi, suspect, clue, question, answer, yesterday, o'clock, true, mystery) come with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a case-file mystery, 'The Missing Cookies' (about 120 words), full of was/were questions, short answers and negatives, with hover-tooltip vocabulary. Practice has 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blanks (Was/Were/wasn't/weren't) with live validation, hints and a score. Speaking is an alibi game with five detective prompts and a five-line model interview; the writing task asks students to interview someone at home and report the alibi in 25-45 words with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save. An 8-question quiz (six grammar, two reading-comprehension) closes the lesson with progress bar, explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 detective questions about the past (where were you, at home or school, who with, weather)
- Silent thinking or pair-share format — no writing required
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Yes/no questions: Was (one) / Were (you, many) at the front — Was Leo there? Were you at home?
- Wh-questions: Where were you? Who was with you?
- Short answers: Yes, I was / No, I wasn't; Yes, they were / No, they weren't
- Negatives: wasn't = was not (one); weren't = were not (many/you)
- Full paradigm: I/he/she/it was; you/we/they were
- The verb comes before the subject in questions
