Tuesday 3 April 2012, 1800 - 2030 | Exeter | Rougemont Thistle Hotel, Queen Street, EX4 3SP

(A) Live and unplugged (a dogme lesson and discussion) 

With Luke Meddings

(B) 'Videotelling’

With Jamie Keddie

Live and unplugged (a dogme lesson and discussion)

Following on from the success of the first live lesson, taught by Luke Meddings and Scott Thornbury at the Unplugged TDSIG conference in Barcelona (May 2011) Luke Meddings brings a live dogme lesson (and seminar) to the British Council.

The class will be a group of intermediate level English language learners brought from local schools into a working classroom setting. This will not simply be a demonstration of a recent lesson, but a live lesson rooted in interaction with the learners and in conversation about their lives and current events. Luke will put dogme methodology into practice, asking students to answer questions, note words and structures as they emerge, helping learners to refine their language as they work on a variety of task types, written and spoken. We invite you to observe and contribute.

This session will give the opportunity not only to see some core dogme tasks in action, but also to gain a sense of the ‘flow’ within an unplugged lesson – between tasks, between participants (teacher and learners) and between phases of interaction and instruction. The live lesson will be followed by a discussion.

Videotelling

In this presentation, Jamie shares a classroom technique which brings storytelling to the YouTube generation. We will make use of stories that have been born out of the social media – more specifically, stories which owe their existence to videosharing culture. We will consider storytelling devices and language practice techniques that will allow teachers to turn a storytelling session into a whole-class communicative event.

Jamie Keddie is a European-based teacher, teacher trainer, writer and presenter. He is the founder of www.lessonstream.org, the site that was formerly known as TEFLclips, winner of a British Council ELTons award. His publications include Images in the in the Resource Books for Teachers series published by Oxford University Press. Jamie is an associate trainer at Norwich Institute for Language Education in the UK.

Who is this for?

All EFL/ESOL teachers (newly qualified to experienced).

Programme

1700 – 1745 Welcome and refreshments

1745 – 1900 Live lessson one: 'Unplugged' + Q&A

1900 – 1915 Comfort break and refreshments

1915 – 2000 Live lesson two: 'Videotelling' + Q&A

2000 – 2030 Networking reception

Please note that there is no charge for attending seminars, but places are limited.

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