The Yellow Cat

Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí

Extensión Universitaria de Boquete

Activity 1, Vocabulary match

Objective: Recognition of words and practicing vocabulary. Point the word to the right picture and write the number below each picture.

1… castle 2… friends 3… cat 4… kids 5… yellow

Verbs in past

Activity 2

Objective: Listening and practicing pronunciation of verbs in past tense.

Write the following verbs in the past form, listen to the pronunciation and underline them when the story is read by the teacher.

1… abandon 2… say 3… live 4… hear 5… scare 6… define 7… get 8… claim 9… want 10… start Activity 3

Objective: Recognition of words, practice pronunciation.

After listening to the audio read the story and underline all the words that you could recognize or the ones you are more familiar with.

The Yellow Cat in The Abandoned Castle

In Bajo Mono there is an abandoned castle, nobody has never lived there. The castle is dark gray color surrounded by the green forest and people who live around are scared because of the lights and noises that come from it at night.

One day, Ana, a little girl who lives close to the castle said to her friends Kathy and Robert “hey guys! What about going to that castle? I’ve heard that in there you can hear and see things that are not normal”.

Let’s go! Claimed Robert.

I’m in! Kathy said.

Once inside the Castle they heard a track Track track sound that was coming from the second floor, and an image not well defined was approaching from the dark. They all wanted to run away because of fear, but suddenly a beautiful yellow cat got close to them. The kids got in love with the cat and started playing with it, and now once a week they go to the castle to play and feed their new friend the cat.

Activity 4

Objective: Listening and speaking (pronunciation)

Listen to the audio from the activity 1 and 2 and practice pronunciation by repeating the words.

https://youtu.be/gJwhPn1j3a0

Activity 5

Listening, speaking, and Practice pronunciation

Dialogue: practice with a partner

Ana: Hello Kathy. How are you?

Kathy: Hi, Ana. I am fine, thanks.

Ana: Do you like cats? Do you have any?

Kathy: I love cats but I don’t have one.

Ana: I love cats too, Robert and I rescued one cat from the abandoned castle.

Kathy: Really! That’S good and what color is it?

Ana: It is yellow and he is so adorable.

Kathy: I’d love to see him. Can I?

Ana: Yes, of course, he is in the backyard playing with Robert, come with me.

Kathy: Ok. Let’s go.

Read the story again and fill up the blanks with the correct words.

The Yellow Cat in The Abandoned Castle

In Bajo Mono there is an ……………. castle, nobody has never lived there. The ………… is dark gray color surrounded by the green forest and ………….. who live around are scared because of the lights and ……………. that come from it at night.

One day, Ana, a little …….. who lives close to the castle said to her ……… Kathy and Robert “hey guys! What about going to that castle? I’ve heard that in there you can hear and see things that are not normal”.

Let’s go! Claimed Robert.

I’m in! Kathy said.

Once inside the ……… they heard a track Track track ……… that was coming from the second floor, and an image not well defined was approaching from the …………….

They all wanted to run away because of fear, but suddenly a beautiful ……….. cat got close to them. The kids got in love with the ……….. and started playing with

it, and now once a week they go to the castle to ………. and feed their new friend the cat.

Activity 7

Make a sentence with each of the following words. Cat Yellow House Friends Play Green Forest Castle

Activity 8

Work in pairs and answer the following questions.

1… What color is the abandoned castle?

2… What is the cat’s name?

3… How often the kids go to visit the cat.

Activity 9

Mark with a circle the words that appear in the story.

House car cat red Kathy green Alicia

Forest read abandoned yellow mother river friend school scared love gray road pizza Robert normal

Activity 10

Work in class

Answer the following questions by using your own words and share the answers with your classmates.

1… What did you like the most about the story?

2… What did you like the least about the story?

1… Did you like how the story end? If not, explain how would you like that the story ends?

Activity11

Listen to the audio and practice pronunciation https://youtu.be/v6jC8RbX_dQ

Activity 12

Work in pairs

Listen to the audio of the dialogue and practice it with your partner.

https://youtu.be/v6jC8RbX_dQ