diff --git a/src/activities/gletters/Gletters.qml b/src/activities/gletters/Gletters.qml
--- a/src/activities/gletters/Gletters.qml
+++ b/src/activities/gletters/Gletters.qml
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@
             property Item main: activity.main
             property Item ourActivity: activity
             property GCAudio audioVoices: activity.audioVoices
-            property var levels: activity.datasetLoader.item !== null ? activity.datasetLoader.item.data : undefined
+            property var levels: activity.datasetLoader.item !== null ? activity.datasetLoader.item.data : null
+            property var instructionText: ""
             property alias background: background
             property alias bar: bar
             property alias bonus: bonus
@@ -105,6 +106,50 @@
         }
         onStop: { Activity.stop() }
 
+        //instruction rectangle
+        Rectangle {
+            id: instruction
+            anchors {
+                top: parent.top
+                topMargin: 5
+                horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
+            }
+            height: instructionTxt.contentHeight * 1.1
+            width: Math.max(Math.min(parent.width * 0.8, instructionTxt.text.length * 10), parent.width * 0.3)
+            opacity: 0.8
+            visible: items.levels
+            radius: 10
+            border.width: 2
+            z: 10
+            border.color: "#DDD"
+            color: "#373737"
+
+            Behavior on opacity { PropertyAnimation { duration: 200 } }
+
+            //shows/hides the Instruction
+            MouseArea {
+                anchors.fill: parent
+                onClicked: instruction.opacity = instruction.opacity == 0 ? 0.8 : 0
+            }
+
+            GCText {
+                id: instructionTxt
+                anchors {
+                    top: parent.top
+                    topMargin: 5
+                    horizontalCenter: parent.horizontalCenter
+                }
+                opacity: instruction.opacity
+                z: instruction.z
+                fontSize: smallSize
+                color: "white"
+                text: items.instructionText
+                horizontalAlignment: Text.AlignHCenter
+                width: parent.width * 0.8
+                wrapMode: TextEdit.WordWrap
+            }
+        }
+
         TextInput {
             // Helper element to capture composed key events like french ô which
             // are not available via Keys.onPressed() on linux. Must be
diff --git a/src/activities/gletters/gletters.js b/src/activities/gletters/gletters.js
--- a/src/activities/gletters/gletters.js
+++ b/src/activities/gletters/gletters.js
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 
     // register the voices for the locale
     GCompris.DownloadManager.updateResource(GCompris.DownloadManager.getVoicesResourceForLocale(GCompris.ApplicationInfo.getVoicesLocale(items.locale)));
-    if(items.levels == undefined)
+    if(!items.levels)
         items.wordlist.loadFromFile(GCompris.ApplicationInfo.getLocaleFilePath(
             items.ourActivity.dataSetUrl + "default-"+locale+".json"));
     else
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
         }
         // If not found, we will use the default file
         items.wordlist.useDefault = true
-        if(items.levels == undefined)
+        if(!items.levels)
             items.wordlist.loadFromFile(GCompris.ApplicationInfo.getLocaleFilePath(
             items.ourActivity.dataSetUrl + "default-"+localeShort+".json"));
         else
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@
 }
 
 function initLevel() {
+    if(items.levels)
+        items.instructionText = items.levels[currentLevel].objective
     items.audioVoices.clearQueue()
     items.bar.level = currentLevel + 1;
     wgMaxFallingItems = 3
@@ -416,7 +418,6 @@
                                                                        + Core.getSoundFilenamForChar(letter)))
 }
 
-
 function focusTextInput() {
     if (!GCompris.ApplicationInfo.isMobile && items && items.textinput)
         items.textinput.forceActiveFocus();
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/1/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/1/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/1/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/1/Data.qml
@@ -23,26 +23,29 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-    objective: qsTr("Select number on dice up to 4")
+    objective: qsTr("Select a number on dice up to 4")
     difficulty: 1
     data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 2",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2"
          ]
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 3",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
             "3",
          ]
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 4",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/2/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/2/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/2/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/2/Data.qml
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-    objective: qsTr("Select number on dice up to 7")
+    objective: qsTr("Select a number on dice up to 7")
     difficulty: 2
     data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 4",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 5",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 6",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -58,6 +61,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "4",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 7",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/3/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/3/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/3/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers/resource/3/Data.qml
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-   objective: qsTr("Select number on dice up to 9")
+   objective: qsTr("Select a number on dice up to 9")
    difficulty: 3
    data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 6",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 7",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 8",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "4",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dice up to 9",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/1/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/1/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/1/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/1/Data.qml
@@ -23,26 +23,29 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-    objective: qsTr("Select number on dominoes up to 4")
+    objective: qsTr("Select a number on dominoes up to 4")
     difficulty: 1
     data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 2",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2"
          ]
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 3",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
             "3",
          ]
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 4",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/2/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/2/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/2/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/2/Data.qml
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-    objective: qsTr("Select number on dominoes up to 7")
+    objective: qsTr("Select a number on dominoes up to 7")
     difficulty: 2
     data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 4",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 5",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 6",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -58,6 +61,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "4",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 7",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
diff --git a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/3/Data.qml b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/3/Data.qml
--- a/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/3/Data.qml
+++ b/src/activities/smallnumbers2/resource/3/Data.qml
@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@
 import "../../../../core"
 
 Dataset {
-   objective: qsTr("Select number on dominoes up to 9")
+   objective: qsTr("Select a number on dominoes up to 9")
    difficulty: 3
    data: [
       {
          "level" : "1",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 6",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "2",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 7",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -51,6 +53,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "3",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 8",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",
@@ -64,6 +67,7 @@
       },
       {
          "level" : "4",
+         "objective" : "Select the number on dominoes up to 9",
          "words" : [
             "1",
             "2",