Thursday, December 06, 2007

TPRS

If your four words are:
pai1she4 - film, dao3yan3 - director, guan1zhong4 - audience, jing4tou2 scene
(and this seems feasible, because you have a verb and a couple o' nouns in there), I might go with something like (I'll do it in English):

Famous director Bob wants to film.
Director Bob is filming for a special audience. The audience is all drunken English teachers who think they see elephants.
So Director Bob needs to film a scene with elephants. His audience will love this scene. They will love what Director Bob films, if what Director Bob films has lots of elephants in it.
But Director Bob does not know where to find a scene he can film that will make his audience happy.
Director Bob asks his friends on Forumosa, "Zenme ban?" His friends on Forumosa do not film elephants, but they know where there are many elephants in Taipei.
Director Bob says, "Aha!" He goes to the 7-11 on Heping Road and films for thirty seconds.
Because there are many elephants in the 7-11 on Heping Road, Bob is very happy. He films a wonderful scene. The scene has ...
Director Bob takes the movie that he has filmed and his audience sees the movie. Director Bob's audience of drunken English teachers loves the movie. They love the scene with the elephants in the shower best. They also love the scene where an elephant kisses Bo Derek on the 32nd Floor of Taipei 101.
Director Bob is happier than a drunken English teacher, because the audience loves the elephant scenes in the film he has filmed for them.


Do you see what I mean? The story is really, really, REALLY simple. It's just all the embroidery that keeps it going...and going....and going...and going...and the in-jokes that develop as you work with a student or students over a period of time make it more fun.

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