Brought to you by my students
Today in class, I had some extra time during one of the class hours, so I turned the class over to the students and let them make a story one sentence at a time. We went around the room and each student got to add whatever they wanted. I started them off by telling them that it was New Year's Day (¼³³¯ - GTV FEV) and they should start telling the story of Myong Ju's holiday. Here is a rough English translation of what was said. Anything in parenthesis is my own addition or explanation.
Myong Ju was working in San Francisco (everyone laughed because the student seemed to forget that it was New Year's Day). It was New Year's Eve and Myong Ju said he would be coming to my house for dinner. He then called his girlfriend and asked her to come, too. But she had other plans, so he decided to go to a bar and drink. When he was done drinking, he took his new girlfriend home. That night, they were at his home (I had to caution this student twice about potentially offensive language - he was disappointed and just left the sentence as is). He then decided to go to a lake and fish. Ice fishing. After fishing, he fell asleep in the snow. When he woke up, he found a murder victim under the ice. He took the corpse back to his house and they (Myong Ju and the corpse) ate rice dumpling soup (traditional food for New Year's Day in Korea). Myong Ju then went to a bar. He drank a lot of beer and fell asleep. When he woke up, he decided to move to a farm and raise goats. One day, he had visitors come to the farm. What he didn't know was that the visitors were murderers. The murderers saw the corpse (appparently it moved to the farm with him), they took it. Once again, Myong Ju drank a lot. His last words were, "I'm sorry."
That's it. I do this sort of exercise fairly regularly to let them create sentences and interact with each other in a way that is fun. They come up with some crazy stuff!