In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee wrote: “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
And often enough, kids don’t know how vital stories are, even for them, and how much life would lose its meaning without great storytellers.

Reading is life, therefore, and for life to be about reading, you only have to stumble upon the right stories and a teacher who knows how to make you appreciate them.
The CATchy English videos are intended to assist you with this complex challenge, by recounting for example, how David Copperfield tackles his childhood’s “highs and lows”, or by showing an amusing video call in which the King is advised that his son is pretending to be penniless – in a contemporary take of The Prince and the Pauper.

The Reading and Listening activities that accompany the videos, then help us utilise these beautiful stories to strengthen the English language.

So, to live can signify to be afraid, to be a “wuss”, as the clip of The Turn of the Screw teaches us, but in Far from the Madding Crowd, we also learn the meaning of “to stand on your own two feet”, as well as the value of feeling aware and resilient.

And life, just like literature, is not without love. That’s why we thought of giving you a full Lesson Plan about Valentine’s Day, to help kids practice the language, by showing them that love and learning are concepts that are much closer than they think.