Looking at the instructions you can use the something like the following
[catlist id=1 numberposts=1 pagination=no excerpt=no thumbnail=yes ]
[catlist id=1 numberposts=4 pagination=yes excerpt=no ]
That should show the title and image of the first post then just show the titles of the following 4 posts…
Hope that helps a little, there’s quiet a lot of options. If you want to add some text to the first one use :
[catlist id=1 numberposts=1 pagination=no excerpt=no thumbnail=yes excerpt=yes excerpt_strip=no excerpt_size=100 thumbnail=yes]
That will use an excerpt from the article including any html styling cutting it off at 100 characters. There’s an option for thumbnail size too if you wanted.
Hope thats of some help to you ??