Singing Drum & 3 more plays

By KT Gatti

This book contains 4 plays for Children - Singing Drum, Roaming Tree, The Potter's Violin, Children's Garden

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media
• Release date: Mar 16, 2016
• ISBN: 6580200201095

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Singing Drum And 4 Other Plays

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K.T. Gatti

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Table of Contents

About these plays

Play - 1. The Singing Drum

Scene One: Beach

Scene Two: Beach, Another

Scene Three:  Beach

Scene Four: The Village Market

Scene Five: Beach

Glossary

Play - 2. Roaming Tree

Scene One: A Grove Of Trees; Morning

Scene Two: The Same As The First One; Evening

Scene Three: Roadside; Morning

Scene Four: An Old House; Morning

Scene Five: Dc’s Office; Morning

Scene Six: Playground Of A School; Evening

Glossary

Play - 3. The Potter’s Violin

Scene One: Marketplace

Scene Two: A Stall

Scene Three: The Stall

Scene Four: Marketplace

Glossary

Play - 4 Children’s Garden

Scene One: Garden

Scene Two: Open Ground

Scene Three: The Garden

Scene Four: A Corner Of The Garden

Scene Five: Garden

Glossary

About these plays 

These plays are based on folk-tales and fairy-tales from different parts of the world.  Written especially for schoolchildren, these plays can be performed by children in their classrooms. They can read out the dialogues by taking up the roles in the play. Children can distribute and redistribute roles among them. Such performances will be complementary to learning the language from textbooks.  Similarly, a performance can be staged for the benefit of the whole school.  This exercise is of great benefit where English is taught as a second language. 

By watching and reading plays in English one can familiarize oneself with spoken English. The best method of learning spoken English is by listening to conversation and making use of the opportunity to speak.  Sentences are spoken in a play in lifelike situations and in logical sequence.  By repetitive hearing, they become a part of the listener’s language.

A language teacher must bear in mind the fact that forcing the learner to speak always grammatically correct and complete sentences is what makes him tongue-tied.  Nobody learnt to speak his mother tongue this way. Every child starts speaking the mother tongue with meaningless words, and fragments. In the beginning, his speech is replete with of mistakes of all kind. The child learns the language the way he learns walking.

A play can also be read like a story. The reader naturally internalizes a lot of expressions from the dialogues in a play.  Reading a play can be a group activity providing social interaction.  Staging a play is a lesson in language as well as a piece of entertainment at the same time. Correct pronunciation, accent and intonation can be taught through plays.

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