CAT: A framework for Dogme by Ken Lackman
appearing in English Teaching Professional, Issue 87, July 2013

My manager recently pointed me to this article.

It's also available online here

I've designed some materials to supplement it.
The lesson doesn't need supplementary materials, and arguably it's not even a good idea.  (I think you could make the argument that the lesson is more authentic without pre-designed materials).  But I was nervous about how the students would react to the lesson, and I felt like having PowerPoints and pre-designed worksheets in the class made it more official.

The PowerPoint is designed with the assumption that the classroom has both one screen for the PowerPoint and also a whiteboard for the teacher to write on.

Google Drive Folder: HERE
PowerPoint: slides, pub


Conversation topics Worksheet: docs, pub
Questions and Expressions: docs, pub

(I'm putting this online to keep track of my own materials, and indexing it here and here).

Conversation topics:

In small groups (2 or 3) brainstorm a list of conversation topics.

Choose things that you would like to talk about in this lesson.

You have 3 minutes.

At the end of 3 minutes, the group with the most conversation topics is the winner.

1.  ________________________________________ 2.  ________________________________________ 3.  ________________________________________ 4.  ________________________________________ 5.  ________________________________________ 6.  ________________________________________ 7.  ________________________________________ 8.  ________________________________________ 9.  ________________________________________ 10.  _______________________________________ 11.  _______________________________________ 12.  _______________________________________ 13. ________________________________________ 14. ________________________________________ 15. ________________________________________ 16. ________________________________________ 17.  _______________________________________ 18.  _______________________________________ 19.  _______________________________________ 20.  _______________________________________ 21.  _______________________________________

22.  _______________________________________ 23.  _______________________________________ 24. ________________________________________ 25.  _______________________________________ 26. ________________________________________ 27.  _______________________________________ 28.  _______________________________________ 29.  _______________________________________ 30.  _______________________________________ 31.  _______________________________________ 32.  _______________________________________ 33.  _______________________________________ 34. ________________________________________ 35. ________________________________________ 36. ________________________________________ 37. ________________________________________ 38.  _______________________________________ 39.  _______________________________________ 40.  _______________________________________ 41.  _______________________________________ 42..  _______________________________________

Write down all  the questions that the teacher asks.  Try to write down exactly the same words that your teacher uses:

Write down all  any expressions that you hear the teacher say.  (An “expression” is a group of words that are used together.  For example: “Would you like…”.  “As far as I know…”  “It seems to me that… “  etc.   Try to write down exactly the same words that your teacher uses: