🦸 Explorers: The Hero's Day Out
A fully interactive A2.1 Kids reading lesson from the Explorer Club world, built on the Irregular Heroes unit. Four warm-up questions wake up the target verbs, then a skill-focus section recaps the twelve irregular 'heroes' in two sets (go→went, see→saw, eat→ate, have→had, get→got, come→came and make→made, take→took, give→gave, run→ran, say→said, write→wrote) with a past-form table and order words (first, then, after that, finally). Ten key words — went, saw, ate, took, gave, made, ran, came, adventure, proud — appear with kid-friendly definitions and examples, and six become review flashcards. The reading, 'The Hero's Day Out', is a ~100-word Team Compass adventure using more than ten irregular past verbs in natural context, with hover-tooltip glosses on the trickiest heroes. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blank items (single-word irregular past answers) with live green/red validation, hints and a score. A speaking section retells the adventure with order words and a model five-line dialogue; a guided 25–45 word writing task retells three events like a comic strip with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and an 8-question multiple-choice quiz mixes irregular past forms with two reading-comprehension questions, complete with progress bar, per-question explanations, a result circle and localStorage persistence.
Lesson Plan
- 4 questions that activate irregular past verbs (go, eat, see, take)
- Silent thinking or pair-share format — no writing required
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Irregular past set 1: go→went, see→saw, eat→ate, have→had, get→got, come→came
- Irregular past set 2: make→made, take→took, give→gave, run→ran, say→said, write→wrote
- Irregular verbs never take -ed (not 'goed' or 'eated')
- Order words for sequencing past events: first, then, after that, finally
- Reading past narration and putting events in order
