Tibetan protesters created a big scene at the Chinese embassy in Delhi
The road to better spoken English skills is similar to the road to better guitar playing skills. Play guitar a lot and have a guru to point out your mistakes. In the same way, do a lot of conversation practice and have a guru to correct you.
Also, do not forget to learn a new phrase everyday.
In this post, we will discuss making a scene 🙂
Let’s begin with some examples:
- The fat middle aged man brushed against Bhavya’s body in the crowded bus but she remained silent because she did not want to make a scene. However, this only emboldened him and he kept his hand on her shoulder. It was then that she turned back and slapped him.
- Look, I don’t like you at all but I don’t want to make a scene here.
- You guys can sort out your differences later. Please don’t make a scene here.
Make a guess.
What is a scene? Or, what is a good scene?
Well, its a piece of the movie with a lot of drama, activity, action.
Making a scene then should mean creating a lot of drama, activity, action – but that would be very literal.
In actual communication, it means creating a disturbance or a public spectacle (which usually is embarrassing for other people around). Closest Hindi equivalent would be तमाशा खड़ा करना.
Use it to express a situation where someone does something which attracts the attention of a lot of people due to it being some kind of a disturbance.
Let’s close with some more examples:
- Go and fight outside. Don’t make a scene here.
- If you allow others to take advantage of you and stay silent because of not wanting to make a scene, you have the problem of low assertiveness.
- If you push him, he would react no matter what the place. He is never afraid of making a scene.
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