🎬 Explorers: The Three Sounds of -ed

A fully interactive A2 Kids grammar-and-pronunciation lesson that extends the -ed Machine to its three secret sounds — t, d and id — using playful sound corners instead of IPA. Students begin with four listening warm-up questions, then study the language in three blocks: Same -ed, three sounds (the t corner for walked/jumped/cooked, the d corner for played/cleaned/listened, and the id corner for wanted/needed/visited), The extra-beat rule (verbs ending in t or d take the id sound and add a new beat: want-ed, need-ed, vi-sit-ed), and a Sort the sounds table grouping the verbs by corner. Ten key words appear in a scrollable table tagged by their sound family, and six get review flashcards. The reading is a magazine-style Team Diary, The Sound Corner Game, in which the club listens to verbs and runs to the right corner, clapping the extra beat for id, with key vocabulary highlighted on hover. Practice includes eight contextualised single-word fill-in-the-blanks (sound corners t/d/id plus verb forms) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five corner-game prompts and a five-line model dialogue; a guided 25-45 word writing task with a four-point checklist (one t verb, one d verb, one id verb, read-aloud check) and a live word counter with auto-save; and a full eight-question multiple-choice quiz on sound identification, the extra-beat rule and two reading-comprehension questions, with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle and localStorage persistence.