Title: Me and My Cat (a story written by Satoshi Kitamura)

Level: A1

Time: 30 min.

Practical objectives:

- to form pupils speaking and listening skills

- to practise in the use of Present Simple and Present Countinuous Tenses

- video story (http://www.storylineonline.net/me-and-my-cat/)

Materials:

- Power Point Presentation

- a set of pictures based on the story per a pupil

Procedures (fragment of the lesson)

Pre-listening tasks

1. Read the title of the story Me and My Cat to pupils (slide 1). Tell children
that you are interested in the title, because you have got a cat at home, and you
want to learn what stories may happen to cats and their masters.

2. Ask children if they like stories about pets. Let them explain their answers to
you.

3. Tell pupils that you are going to listen to this story and present them the
narrator (slide 2)

4. Offer children to look at the picture (slide 3) and say what they see in it, what
he is doing, and what he is thinking about.

5. Ask pupils to brainstorm the ideas answering the question What do cats do
every day? (slide 4). Start brainsorming by offering your own idea. For
example, cats usually purr to their masters. .Children may say, that cats
usually play with their masters or they sleep a lot and etc. Pupils will use their
general knowledge and own experience.

6. Suggest pupils listening to the story Me and my Cat and find out what
happens to him one day.

While listening tasks

 1. Hand out the sets with pictures to each pupil and explain to them that when
they listen to the story, they will order the pictures (slide 5)

Post-listening tasks

1. Unite pupils in pairs so that they will interact and share their opinions. They
will complete all post-listening activities in pairs.

2. Give them the task to tell each other what characters of the story they see in
the pictures. Help them with proper names (slide 6)

3. Ask for pupils feed-back and check the variants.

4. Offer pupils to read the sentences of the next exercise (slide 7). Propose them
to ask you unfamiliar words. Be ready to explain the words to pupils.

5. Tell the pupils that they need to match the sentences with the pictures.

6. Ask for feed-back and check the variants.

7. Let children choose 3 pictures from the set they like and introduce them the
following exercise. It is a speaking activity, which is called If picture could
speak. The main idea of it is to give pupils an opportunity to describe the
picture using all the information they got from the story. Provide children with
some questions to use as a plan for their description (slide 8).

8. Ask for feed-back and check pupils descriptions.

Follow-up activity

As it is important for pupils to pass all the tasks through their experience, offer pupils
to complete the sentences (slide 6)

I like (dislike) the story Me and My Cat because ,

I would like (would not like) such a story happen to me because.