This document discusses different types of dramatic presentations for teaching including formal plays, pageants, tableaus, pantomimes, and puppets. It provides descriptions of different puppet types such as shadow, rod, hand, and string puppets. The document also lists principles for choosing puppet plays, such as basing them on action rather than words, keeping them short, and adapting them to the audience. Improvisational role-playing is also mentioned as a dramatic teaching method.

2. o Formal Plays
o Pageants
o Tableau
o Pantomime
o Puppets
o Types of Puppets
o Principle in Choosing

3. If our teaching is dramatic, we can catch the
attention and the heart of the learner. They
become affected and will leave an impact to
them.

4. All dramatization is essentially a process
of communication, in which both
participant and spectators are engaged.
A creative interaction takes place, a
sharing of ideas.
-Edgar Dale

5. - depict life, character, or culture or a
combination of all three.

6. - are usually community dramas that are
based on logical history, presented by local
actors.

7. -- A tableau (a French word which
means picture) is a picture-like scene
composed of people against a
background.

8. - A pantomime is the “art of conveying a
story through bodily movements only”

10. - flat black silhouette made from lightweight
cardboard and shown behind a screen.

11. - flat cut out figures tacked to a stick, with
one more movable parts, and operated by
slender sticks.

12. - the puppet’s head is operated by the
forefinger of the puppeteer, the thumb being
used to animate the puppet hands.

13. - make use of old gloves to which small
costumed figure attached.

14. - flexible, jointed puppets operated by strings or
wires attached to a cross bar and maneuverer
from directly above the stage.

15. • Do not use puppets for plays that can be one just
as well or better by other dramatic means.
• Puppet plays must be based on action rather than
on words.
• Keep the plays short.
• Do not omit the possibilities of music and dancing
as part of the puppet show.
• Adapt the puppet show to the age, background,
and tastes of the students.

16. Is an unrehearsed, unprepared and
spontaneous dramatization of a “let’s
pretend” situation where assigned
participants are absorbed by their own roles
in the situation described by the teachers.