⭐ Builders: The Interview Handshake

A fully interactive B1.1 Builders' Studio speaking lesson that teaches the natural interview move at the heart of the Present Perfect module: opening a conversation with a present perfect experience question ('Have you ever...?') and then switching to the past simple for the details ('Really? When did you go?'). Students begin with four warm-up questions about surprising stories and reactions, then study a three-move Interviewer's Toolkit: Move 1 opens the door with 'Have + you + ever + past participle'; Move 2 is the handshake itself, switching to past-simple follow-ups (When/Where/Who/How did you...?) with an explicit warning against 'When have you...?'; Move 3 is a react-then-dig table pairing reactions (Really?, Wow!, Tell me more) with follow-up questions. Ten key words (experience, interview, follow-up, reaction, react, curious, surprising, detail, mingle, impressed) appear in a scrollable table with full B1 definitions and examples, six as review flashcards. The reading, 'The Handshake in Action', shows Aylin, Sam, Marco and Priya playing the interview game so students can see each perfect question open a door and each past question walk through it, with hover-tooltip vocabulary. Practice offers 8 contextualised fill-in-the-blanks (Have, did, never, participles, reaction words, follow-up) with live green/red validation, hints and a running score; a speaking section with five 'Have you ever...?' prompts and a six-line model dialogue between Priya and Marco; a guided 40-70 word writing task reporting a family interview with a four-point checklist and live word counter with auto-save; and a full 8-question quiz (six on the handshake grammar, two on the reading) with a progress bar, per-question explanations, a conic-gradient result circle with tiered feedback, and localStorage persistence.