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Radio Drama

This document defines key terms related to radio drama through examples and explanations. It discusses the components of a drama, including characters, plot, setting, and theme. It also explains the structure of a drama, with sections like exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Additionally, it provides an example of a radio drama and criteria for evaluating radio dramas, such as delivery, sound effects/music, and cooperation.

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Radio Drama

This document defines key terms related to radio drama through examples and explanations. It discusses the components of a drama, including characters, plot, setting, and theme. It also explains the structure of a drama, with sections like exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Additionally, it provides an example of a radio drama and criteria for evaluating radio dramas, such as delivery, sound effects/music, and cooperation.

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Tell the meaning of the underlined words

using the pictures beside them as clues.


She cooked a toadstool soup
to kill her husband.
- is simply a mushroom/fungus, typically in the
form of a rounded cap on a stalk, especially one
that is believed to be inedible or poisonous

The restaurant was full of


clanging silverwares.
- also means eating utensils, especially
silver-colored ones

Mrs. Brown was charged of


homicide.
- an act of a human killing another
human.

FX was used to make the


scenes more realistic.
- short for Sound effects (or audio effects);
are artificially created or enhanced sounds,
or sound processes used to emphasize
artistic or other content of films, television
shows, live performance, animation, video
games, music, or other media.

5.

The narrator spoke


with a calm yet full
voice.

- a person who narrates something,


especially a character who recounts
the events of a novel or narrative
poem.

Radio Drama

What is a radio drama/play?

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play,


radio play, radio theater) is a dramatized,
purely acoustic performance, broadcast on
radio or published on audio media, such as
tape or CD.

Components of a Drama
Characters - The people about whom the drama is
created.

Plot - The chain of events or actions.

Setting - The place(s) and time(s) during which


the action takes place.

Theme - The emotional focus of the drama.

Structure of a Drama

Now lets listen to an example of radio drama

Activity
Group 1 Seven Deadly Sins
2 The Dancers
3 The World is an Apple
4 The Love of Virgil and Cely
5 Cadaver
CRITERIA:

Delivery

Sound Effects/Music
Cooperation
Coherence

Choose the letter of the correct


answer.
1. They are the people whom the drama is
created
a.
plot b. characters
c. actors
2. It is a drama played in the radio with sound
effects and music.
a. radio play/drama b. radio theatre c. radio
opera
3. It is the chain of events or actions
a.
sequence
b. plot
c. theme

4. The beginning of a drama


a. climax b. denouement
c. exposition
5. It is where the drama progresses and the
conflict develops
a. Rising action
b. falling action c.
conclusion
6. The conflict is intense and something
must happen to end it
a. Rising action
b. climax c. falling

7. The dramatic conflict is resolved


a. Rising action
b. falling action
c.
resolution
8. This is the ending where the loose ends
of the story are tied up.
a. Rising action
b. denouement c. falling
action
9. The component of drama which reflects
the universal moral value or emotion.

10. Choose the correct sequence of the five


structure of drama
a. Exposition, climax, rising action, falling action,
resolution
b. Exposition, rising action, falling action, climax,
resolution
c. Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action,
resolution
d. Exposition, climax, rising action, resolution,
falling action

Assignment
Read and Study A Chinese Drama: Whose Bride
is She? By Cheng Chin Hsuing, pp. 190-210
1.What is a Chinese drama?
2.Why is arranged/fixed marriage important to the
Chinese culture?
3.How is Chinese drama presented?
4.Give 2 examples of a Chinese drama.

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