Here are the last two clips from the story – Brrr! by Jim Tripp – done in November with a combined level 3 and 4 class in their first year of TPRS. The first two clips are the PQA to set up the story, the second two clips are the story, and these are the reading class links. The reason there are two clips is because the second link is the one with my comments, like a director’s cut. Thank you Jim for the script.
Both the PQA and the story move very slowly in this particular class, which is not a big deal to me. Nothing really happens in this story. I was just asking questions and getting reps and kind of got bogged down in all of that. It happens. I felt like just reacting to things in this class rather than try to always create higher and higher levels of interest. The quality of the story often reflects the kids in the class, as well.
I could have at least tried in the story to get to some kind of resolution, but I didn’t – I wasn’t in the mood and I am way past thinking that I need to go for the home run all the time. That’s part of the myth of TPRS that I would like to debunk, in fact. Only one thing matters – getting plenty of comprehensible reps. Leave your ego at the door when doing this work.
Here is a link to Jim’s script:
https://benslavic.com/blog/2012/11/28/brrrrrrrrr/
Here are the links. If a password is needed, it’s Krashen:
- https://vimeo.com/56861210 Brrr! 1 – PQA
- https://vimeo.com/56876543 Brrr! 1 – PQA – Director’s Cut
- https://vimeo.com/57386675 Brrr! 2 – Story
- https://vimeo.com/57412290 Brrr! 2 – Story – Director’s Cut
- https://vimeo.com/58421936 Brrr! 3 – Reading
- https://vimeo.com/58410507 Brrr! 3 – Reading – Director’s Cut