Therefore, he was able to make a natural return to that visit and ask the audience “Where did I go last month?” It’s worth noting that Thornbury had actually mentioned to the audience at the start of the talk that he’d been to Malta the previous month. For example: “ I went to Warsaw last month”. Tell students about a place you’ve visited recently.Put the students into groups of three or four.Stage 1 - Setting up and gathering information: Aim:įor groups of students to gather information about a trip their teacher has been on and write a composition based on the answers. Here’s one activity that involves speaking, reading, listening and writing. In a training session delivered at British Council Armenia (Yerevan) in 2016, writer and teacher educator Scott Thornbury spoke about Dogme and demonstrated some practical “teaching unplugged” activities that teachers can organise in the classroom. With no further ado, let’s check out some Dogme lesson plans.ĭogme lesson plans and activities Activity 1 - Been there, done that Background: The second activity is rather the result of my own humble imagination. Where necessary, I credit the author/s of the activities and make it clear whether I’ve adapted any of the stages of the activities. Overall, the Dogme lesson plans I present below are activities which I believe generate riveting conversation, ample opportunities to work with emergent language and ideas for follow-up classes on the language that comes up. Finally, this type of language might also require some modification. Moreover, emergent language is that which teachers or learners deem to be new, interesting or worthwhile to share. This emergent language includes errors or communicative breakdowns that students produce. In order to achieve this equilibrium, it’s essential to focus on emergent language.Įssentially, emergent language is unplanned language that comes up spontaneously during genuine interactions in the language classroom (Norrington-Davies, 2020). The main point of these Dogme lesson plans is to home in on the fine line between futile conversation and real teaching. In reality, I share a collection of practical no-nonsense means for arranging an 'unplugged' lesson and getting it going. Following on from my recent review of Dogme ELT, I’d like to present four Dogme lesson plans which require few to no materials.
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