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Physical Education
Learning Activity Sheet
Quarter 4 – MELC 3
Regional and National Dances with
Asian Influences

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

Physical Education 8
Learning Activity Sheet No. 3
First Edition, 2021

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Introductory Message
Welcome to Physical Education-8

The Learning Activity Sheet is a product of the collaborative efforts of the

Schools Division of CAPIZ and DepEd Regional Office VI - Western Visayas through
the Curriculum and Learning Management Division (CLMD). This is developed to
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learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum.

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guide the learners in accomplishing activities at their own pace and time using the
contextualized resources in the community. This will also assist the learners in
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meaningful and engaging activities for independent learning. Being an active learner,
carefully read and understand the instructions then perform the activities and answer
the assessments. This will be returned to your facilitator on the agreed schedule.

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 LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET
Name of Learner:
Grade:
Section:
Date:
Physical Education 8
Regional and National Dances with Asian Influences
I. Learning Competency with Code:
Describes the nature and background of the dance.PE8RD-IVc-1)
II. Background Information for Learners:
Philippine Folk Dances speak so much about the heartbeat of our people for
they talk about our customs, ideas, beliefs, superstitions, and events of daily living in
a certain community. Just by looking at the costumes, props and implements of a
certain group of tribes, you can tell the origin of the dance. The kind of music being
used readily also talks about the influences brought about by trade and settlement of
our neighboring countries such as China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia,
Thailand, and Japan to name a few.
Truly evident is the effect of acculturation in the country as manifested by the
kinds of costumes, props, music, and dance steps that are used and integrated in some
of our regional and national folk dances. The use of gong, kulintang, and the
incorporation of pentatonic scale to our musical compositions are just concrete proofs
of acculturation in the country. These are the reasons why Philippine Folk Dances
contribute to the very rich culture of the country.
III. Accompanying Textbooks:
• Physical Education and Health Learner’s Material-8 (pp.153-159)
• Kto12 Enhanced Basic Educ. Cur. Guide Grade 8 Health
IV. Activity Proper:
Activity I: Loop a word.
Directions: Encircle words which are related to Philippine Folk dance with
Asian influence. Write your answers in the blanks provided below.
K P N E W A G P S D E R G B Y E
I S A W A R A B E M U T S O C G
H J N N I N D O N E S I A Y H B
F H H E G H O K H K S L W K I Y
T J M A H A K D K U A L F H N I
G N L H W B S E N D K H V S A A
R A H G E R L I X S U A C T M D
Y I K N E A H F N H T S H I H E
K L I T R N N S S A I L O C O S
M A L A Y S I A O J N D T K C F
Q G E S G H K H P N G S T S G H
S U A K U S U A U M O N O M I K
Z C O U R T S H I P D A N C E G
G M H T R H N A K A L S I N I B

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 1. _________________ 6. _________________ 11._________________
2. _________________ 7. _________________ 12.________________
3. _________________ 8. _________________ 13.________________
4. _________________ 9. _________________ 14.________________
5. _________________ 10__________________15.________________

How did you find the activity? Were you able to get ten (10) points or above? If you get it, that
means you have some knowledge about the background of the Philippine Folk Dances with
Asian influences. If not, do not worry, for we will discover, and learn together.

Activity 2: What to Know:

Philippine Folk Dances with Asian Influences

1. Binislakan

Source:http://www.kalilayan.com
Background:
Lingayen in Pangasinan means having to look backward and upward. It was
derived from “Li-King-Tung”, a Chinese word given to the name Lingayen, the capital
of Pangasinan, by the Chinese settlers of this place a long time ago. The barrio folks
who lived at Almazin, a small place between barrio Pangasinan (Pulong) and
Maniboc danced this to commemorate the stay of Limahong, a Chinese pirate who
built his kingdom here. The dancers look backward or upward in some of the movements;
hence, the name Lingayen. They also use two sticks to produce rhythms imitating the
chopsticks used by the Chinese in eating, so the dance is also called Binislakan, which in
Pangasinan means, with the use of sticks.

2. Sua-Ku-Sua

Source : http://www.kalilayan.com

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Background/Context
The Tausug of Sulu, Southern Philippines, though known as fearsome
warriors are also better known as sturdy seafarers and hardy farmers. Extensive
orchards are planted with coconuts and pomelos and fields with staples like rice and
root crops.
At harvest time, pomelo fruits are gathered in big baskets before they are sent away.
The Tausugs depend strongly on the income the pomelo brings them and this
relationship is romanticized by comparing the sua’s gentle leaves, slender branches,
attractive fruits and fragrant flowers to the virtues of a lady. Put to music, it is this
song that is sang by couples while flapping two white fans each resembling leaves
rustling in the wind in the Sua-Ku-Sua Dance. Sua-ku-sua performers, some men but
especially women, come to the festivities with face thickly covered with finely ground rice
powder and their eyebrows and sideburns enhanced with soot-all for beauty’s sake.
Movements/Steps Particular to Dance:
Creative imagery: Fans transform into tiny sails, face mirrors, butterflies,
shields and leaves. Tausug traditional steps with Chinese influence.
Dance Properties:
Costume for Female:
Top (Barawasi): Traditional loose blouse, long sleeves with deep, plunging
key-hole neckline.
Extra panels attached to the right and left chest decorated with many
tiny brass buttons.
Material : Cheap printed or plain Chinese silk or cotton.
Pants (Sawal or Kantiu): Loose Chinese pants with a 10-inch soft white
band (coco curdo) attached to a wide waist. To tuck the pants in, the
white band is overlapped in front, one side on top of the other and rolled
out to form a tight belt.
Material: Cheap Chinese silk or any silky material preferably in navy blue,
sunshine yellow, grass green, red or orange colors. Shoulder
band (Siyag): A separate wrap-around malong of rich material strung
over the right shoulder crossing the chest and hanging on the left side.
Headpiece: There are three choices:
1.Gold or brass filigree called tusuk;
2.Paper bills pasted on slender sticks; and
3.Pasteboard cut-out, the front tip 8 to 10 inches high, similar to Chinese
crowns covered with gold foil.
Accessories:
Gold or imitation gold earrings, necklace, bracelets, and brooches.
Suggested Footwear: Dancers are barefoot.
Costume for Male:
Top (Bajo): Short-waist collarless shirt. Open at the front with the right panel
overlapping the left, studded with many tiny brass buttons and is
not intended to close the front but used as an additional shirt
decoration. It is allowed to drop on the right side.
Material: cheap printed or plain Chinese silk or cotton.
Pants (Sawal or Kantiu): Similar to the female pants but in darker colors and
bolder designs.
Accessories: Money-belt, Sarok hat, pis siyabit (rectangular hand-woven scarf
tied on the head or hung loosely over one shoulder); Kris (wavy knife)
or Barong (leaf-knife).
Suggested Footwear: dancers are in barefoot
Music: 2/4 and 4/4; composed of three parts: A, B and C. Gabbang-bamboo xylophone
shaped like a small boat. Bamboo slats thinned and cut to graduated
sizes to produce three octaves of pentatonic scale

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Count: 1, 2 to a measure in 2/4 time signature 1, 2, 3, 4 to a measure in 4/4/ time signature

3. Pangalay

Source: www.folkdance.tk

Background:
Pangalay (also known as Daling-Daling or Mengalai in Sabah) is the traditional
“fingernail” dance of the Tausūg people of the Sulu Archipelago
and Sabah. This dance is the most distinctively Asian of all the Southern Philippine
dances because dancers must have dexterity and flexibility of the shoulders, elbows, and
wrists–movements that strongly resemble those of “kontaw silat,” a martial art common
in the Malay Archipelago.
The Pangalay is performed mainly during weddings or other festive events.
The male equivalent of the Pangalay is the Pangasik and features more martial
movements, while a pangalay that features both a male and female dancer is called
Pangiluk.
The original concept of the Pangalay is based on the pre-Islamic Buddhist concept
of male and female celestial angels (Sanskrit:Vidhyadhari,Bahasa Sūg:Biddadari)
common as characters in other Southeast Asian dances.

Dance Properties: Costume:

Dancer wears a typical Joloana costume Accessories:
Expert and professional dancers use janggay, extended metal fingernails in each
finger. The rich people have janggay made of solid gold or silver.
Suggested Footwear: dancers are barefoot.
Music: Played as many times as necessary. Count one, two or one, and, two and to
a measure.
Movements Steps Particular to Dance: There are no definite directions, sequence
of figures, numbers, and kinds of steps, hand movements and positions used
when performed by the natives. For teaching purposes, the figures of this dance
may be created, and dancers may form their own combinations

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 4. Tiklos

Background/Context:
For centuries, Tiklos has been a very important factor in the social life of the
peasants of Leyte. Tiklos refers to a group of peasants who agree to work for each
other one day each week to clear the forest, prepare the soil for planting, or do any
odd job in the farm, including the building of a house. At noontime, the people gather
to eat their lunch together and to rest. During this period, Tiklos music is played with
a flute accompanied by a guitar and the guimbal or the tambora (kind of drum).
The music of Tiklos is also played to gather the peasants before they start to work.

Dance Properties:
Costume: Dancers are dressed in working costumes.
Music: Divided into two parts. A and B.
Count: one, two or one, ah, two, ah or one, and, two to a measure.
Formation: Partners stand opposite each other about six feet apart. When facing audience,
the girl stands at partner’s right side.
One to any number of pairs may take part in this dance.

5. Sakuting

Background Source: www.flickr.com

This is a dance of the ethnic people living in the western side of the Cordilleras
way back before the coming of the Americans to our country. During
Christmas, young boys and girls accompanied by their elders would go to the
lowlands, especially in Abra and Ilocos Norte to dance in front of the houses and ask
for gifts. These young children hold sticks, one on each hand and strike them
together to make their dance more lively. The homes would give them money,
homemade delicacies and other things. These dancing groups later reached as far as
the coastal towns of Ilocos region as years went by. The rhythmic sounds produced by the
stick attracted other children and also adults and they also learned the dance. “Sakuting “ ,is
an ethnic term which refer to the rhythmic sticks producing the accompaniment for the
dance.

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 Dance Properties:
Costume:Girl –Native Ilocano kimono style with sleeves of elbow length;
skirt of bright-colored plaids shirred at the waist of ankle-length.
Boy –Camisa de chino and red trousers, and a native hat.
Music :2/4 and ¾ rhythms and composed of 9 parts: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and
I.
Formation: Audience
Audience
X O
O X
X O
One set of dancers. O X
Activity 3: Complete Me!
Fill in the information needed in the table below.
Name of Dance Influenced
Dance Meaning Place of Costume Classifica by what
Origin tion Asian
country?
Binislakan Means Female: Siesgo and Kimono China
“with the with loose and long sleeves
use of and soft panuelo.
sticks”. • Male: Camisa de Chino and
red pants
Sua-Ku- Sulu Female • Top (Barawasi) Courtship
Sua •Pants (Sawal or Kantiu) • Dance
Shoulder band (Siyag) •
Headpiece: similar to
Chinese crowns •
Accessories: gold or imitation
gold earrings, necklace,
bracelets, and brooches.
• Suggested footwear:
Dancers are barefoot.
•Male • Top (Bajo) • Pants
(Sawal or Kantiu) •
Accessories: money-belt,
Sarok hat, Pis siyabit
(rectangular hand-woven
scarf tied on the head or
hung loosely over one
shoulder), Kris (wavy knife)
or barong (leaf-knife)
. • Suggested footwear:
Dancers are barefoot
Pangalay Finger Wedding/ Thailand,
nail Dance Malaysia,
Festival Burma,
Cambodia,
and
Indonesia

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Sakuting Abra and Native Ilocano kimono style Social China
Ilocos with sleeves of elbow length; Dance
Norte ankle-length skirt of bright-
colored plaids shirred
at the waist.
• Male: Camisa de chino, red
trousers, and a native hat

Tiklos Leyte

Activity 4. Name the Dance!

Direction: Fill in the Blanks the name of Philippine Folk Dance with Asian
influences. Choose your answer from the words given inside the box.

Binislakan Sakuting Sua-Ku-Sua Pangalay

________________ 1. It is a dance which means fingernails.

________________ 2. The dancers of this dance use gold or imitation gold
earrings, necklace, bracelets, and brooches.
________________ 3. It is a social dance which originated in Lingayen,
Pangasinan.
________________ 4. The name of this dance refers to rhythmic sticks producing
the accompaniment for the dance.
________________ 5. It is a dance wherein the female dancers wear native
Ilocano kimono style with sleeves of elbow length and ankle-
length skirt of bright-colored plaids shirred at the waist.
________________ 6. This dance uses Pis siyabit, a rectangular hand-woven scarf
tied on the head or hung loosely over one shoulder and a
Kris or a wavy knife or barong (leaf-knife).
________________ 7. It is a social dance which has a Chinese influence and
originated from Abra and Ilocos Norte.
________________ 8. (Bajo) Pants and (Sawal or Kantiu) are male costumes used
by the dancers in what dance?
________________ 9. It is a courtship dance which means Pomelo tree.
________________10. It is a wedding dance of the Tausug Sulu wherein the
dancers are barefoot.

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 Activity 5: One, Two, Three… SMILE…
Direction: Draw if the statement is correct and if the statement is false.
Draw your answers in the spaces provided before each number.
_________ 1. Money-belt, Sarok hat, and Pis siyabit are accessories used in
Sua-Ku-Sua Dance.
_________ 2. Gabbang or bamboo xylophone could also be used in a Sakuting
Dance.
_________ 3. The Music of Sakuting is in 2/4 and 3/4time signature.
_________ 4. Binislakan and Sakuting are dances are both originated from
Mindanao.
_________ 5. The Music used in Pangalay is composed of nine (9) parts.

Guide Questions
1. Why do we need to learn about the background of a folk dance?
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2. What is its importance to us Filipinos? Cite some advantages on why we need
to learn the background of our Folk Dance.
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______________________________________________________________

IV. Reflections:

Directions: Watch one of the dances we learned

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QApCK1lTrU
https://www.slideshare.net/rpantinos/philippine-folk-dance-41648707) and answer the
questions below. Write your answers on the space provided.

1. What do you feel while watching it? Do you feel proud of your culture? Why?
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V. References:
www.slideshare.net/CaseyBanugan/philippine-folk-dances-with-asian-influence
https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0PDoX5F909Qah8A0i
SJzbkF?p=pangalay%20dance&fr=yfp-t-521-s&ei=utf-8&n=30&x=wrt&fr2=sg-
gac&sado=1%20November%2028,%202012&guccounter=1#id=8&iurl=https%
3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2F-nV_ZBIfElGE%2FTXT-
QMJ8krI%2FAAAAAAAAAE8%2FuvzjjCPy4lg%2Fs1600%2Fpanagalay2.jpg&
action=click
www.folkdance.tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QApCK1lTrU
https://www.slideshare.net/rpantinos/philippine-folk-dance-41648707
www.kalilayan.com

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4.
Reflections
Answers may vary
5.
Activity 5
Activity 4
Activity 3 1.Pangalay
1. Pangasinan- social dance
2. My Pomelo Tree-China, Malaysia 2. Sua-Ku-Sua
& Indonesia 3. Binislakan
3. Sulu-Joloana costume, with 4. Sakuting
janggay and the dancers are 5. Sakuting
barefoot 6. Sua-Ku-Sua
4. Rhythmic sticks producing the 7. Sakuting
accompaniment for the dance.
5. Group of peasants who agree to 8. Sua-Ku-Sua
work for each other one day 9. SuaKu-Sua
each week-Working costume 10. Pangalay
15. Costume 10. Barawasi 5. China
14. Sticks 9. Sakuting 4. Kimono
13. Ilocos 8. Binislakan 3. Courtship Dance
12. Suakusua 7. Malaysia 2. Abra
11. Indonesia 6. Pangalay 1. Pangasinan
Activity A. 1. Loop a Word
Answer Key