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A few months ago, I posted a lesson plan on TEFLclips titled, A Dream Sequence. The activity involves the teacher telling the class about a dream that he/she had and then asking students to analyse it. This is certainly not the most risk-free activity to take into the classroom and I would have to feel very comfortable with a class before doing it. And, of course, there is the added element of ‘dishonesty’ in that the dream that is being described does not, in fact, belong to the teacher.
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I was really happy to hear from teacher Sascha who left a comment on the original Dream Sequence lesson plan. Sascha reported that the activity was a success with all but one student who was disappointed by the fact that the dream did not belong to his teacher. As Sascha says, the problem is that if we were honest from the start, the activity wouldn’t work. Anyway, I though I would film myself doing the activity. I chose a different music video. It is from a song called Je Pars by French group Mary’s Dream.>
Incidentally, I wanted to record the whole activity including my students’ reaction when they saw the video. Unfortunately, the batteries of my Flip camera ran out.
Big thank you to Alice (Twitter: http://twitter.com/ALiCe__M) for introducing me to the music video :)
Yet again, interesting activity Jamie! and this time on video ;-) Thanks! I tried the first dream sequence lesson plan in my classroom and it worked very well as my upper-int Ss came up with the weirdest, most convoluted and “disturbing” interpretations :-/ I agree if the dream was not presented as the teacher’s dream, they wouldn’t be that engaged.
Eva
Left by Eva on July 30th, 2010