Welcome

back, Argon!
LET’S
REVIEW!
TUM
PAK
NERS
The thing is . . .
The class will be divided into 2 groups.

Each group will choose 2 players per round.

The 2 players will have to stand within the back of

each other .

They have to answer the questions simultaneously

at the count of 3. Corresponding point will be given
to the winning group per round.
CATEGORIES:
• Past Lesson
• Random life questions
TUM
PAK
NERS
ARE YOU
READY?
ELEMENTS OF
DRAMA
1. Characters
2. Setting
3. Plot
4. Theme
5. Dialogue
SENSORY
IMAGING
SENSORY IMAGING
- the use of descriptive
language to engage any of
audience’s five senses.
The tang of a cold
orange

TASTE
A cold breeze

TOUCH
A bright sun

SIGHT
The chirps of
birds
HEARING
 FRESHLY-
MOWED GRASS
SMELL
Let’s Read!
wait owl ear
show brown chair
boy tour I
toy pray oil
_IPH_H_NG
DIPHTHONG
 DIPHTHONG
• ‘di’ = 2
• -phthong = tone or sound
• means ‘two voices’ or ‘two sounds’
• Greek word ‘diphthongos’
• Latin word ‘diphthongus’
 DIPHTHONG
• In Phonetics, it is a vowel in which
there is a noticeable sound change
within the same syllable.

• The process of moving from one vowel

sound to another is called gliding.
DIPHTHONG
•How many Diphthongs
are there in American
English?
 DIPHTHONG
/aɪ/ /əʊ/ /eə/ /ɔɪ/

/eɪ/ /aʊ/ /ɪə/ /ʊə/

 DIPHTHONG
creates sounds similar to
"eye" and most often
/aɪ/ occurs with letter
combinations that include
/i/, /igh/, and /y.
Examples: crime, like, lime
 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “great” and
/eɪ/ is most often used with letter
combinations that include
/ey/, /ay/, /ai/ and /a/.

Examples: break, rain, weight

 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “boat” and
/əʊ/ most often occurs with letter
combinations that include
/ow/, /oa/ and /o/.

Examples: slow, moan, though

 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “aw!” and
/aʊ/ most often occurs with letter
combinations that include
/ou/ and /ow/.

Examples: brown, hound, now

 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “air” and
/eə/ most often occurs with letter
combinations that include
/ai/, /a/, and /ea/.

Examples: lair, stair, bear

 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “ear” and
/ɪə/ most often occurs with letter
combinations that include
/ee/, /ie/ and /ea/.

Examples: beer, near, pier

 DIPHTHONG
This creates sounds
similar to “boy” and most
/ɔɪ/ often occurs with letter
combinations that include
/oy/ and /oi/.
Examples: oil, toy, coil
 DIPHTHONG
This diphthong creates
sounds similar to “sure” and
/ʊə/ most occurs with letter
combinations that include
/oo/, /ou/, /u/, and /ue/.

Examples: lure, pure

fleece father north
sea start war
nurse thought goose
word law two
_ON_PHTHONG
MONOPHTHONG
 MONOPHTHONG
• Mono = 1
• -phthong = tone or sound
• one sound or single sound
• sometimes called ‘pure vowels’
• 12
_R_PHTHONG
TRIPHTHONG
 TRIPHTHONG
• tri = 3
• -phthong = tone or sound
• three sound or tone
 our power lower
fire oasis player
Ireland slower employer
higher mower royal
GROUP ACTIVITY
 GROUP ACTIVITY
A. DIRECTION: Complete the Story Map by supplying
the necessary information assigned to your group.

Author: Group 1
Characters: Group 2
Setting: Group 1
Exposition: Group 2
Rising Action: Group 1
Climax: Group 2
Falling Action: Group 1
Denouement: Group 2
 GROUP ACTIVITY
B. DIRECTION: Read and analyze the drama ‘The
Zoo Story’. Answer the questions below and present
your analysis in class.

1. Describe the characters and the setting of the

play.
2. What is the play’s central theme?
3. Which part of the plot do you consider as the most
important?
4. Pick a dialogue from the play that struck you the
most.
 ASSIGNMENT:
SHORT ANSWER
DIRECTION: Answer the question below
with not less than five (5) sentences. You
may present an evidence to prove your
answer. Write your it on your notebook.

Why is the drama “The Zoo Story” is

an absurd play?
 INTRODUCTION

• Critics often consider this short piece

part of the theater of the absurd.
This play includes odd situations,
little character development,
meaningless dialogue, and
seemingly random plot actions.
 Good
afternoon,
Argon!
LET’S
SPELL!
VAGUELY
VAGUELY
- in a way that is uncertain,
indefinite or unclear;
roughly:
EXECUTIVE
EXECUTIVE
- a person with senior
managerial responsibility in a
business organization:
ANXIOUS
 ANXIOUS
- experiencingworry, unease, or
nervousness, typically about an
imminent event or something
with an uncertain outcome:
MOCKING
MOCKING
- making fun of someone or
something in a cruel way;
derisive: ridicule
BEWILDERED
BEWILDERED
- perplexedand confused;
very puzzled
RELUCTANT
RELUCTANT
- unwillingand hesitant;
disinclined:
PARAKEET
PARAKEET
-a small
parrot with
predominantly
long tail.
WARY
 WARY
- feeling or showing caution
about possible dangers or
problems:
RUEFULLY
 RUEFULLY
- in a way that expresses
sorrow or regret, especially in
a wry or humorous
manner.
PROSTHESIS
PROSTHESIS
- an artificial body part,
such as a leg, a heart, or
a breast implant:
THE ZOO
STORY
EDWARD ALBEE
HAVE YOU
EVER
 HAVE YOU EVER …

Reached out for someone

but did not received the
response that you want?
 WHAT EMOTION(s)
CAN YOU FEEL WHEN
YOU HEAR THIS LINE?
WHAT EMOTION(s) CAN YOU FEEL
WHEN YOU HEAR THIS LINE?

“neither love nor hurt

because we do not try
to reach each other”
THE ZOO
STORY
EDWARD ALBEE
 INTRODUCTION

The Zoo Story is one of the

earliest plays of Edward Albee
and it demonstrates the senses
of alienation and loneliness in
the modern life.
 INTRODUCTION

Moreover, it represents the

failure of the attempts that are
made by the individuals to
make communication with
each other.
 INTRODUCTION

•“The Zoo Story” is a one-

act play written by
playwright Edward
Albee.
 INTRODUCTION

• Critics often consider this short piece

part of the theater of the absurd.
This play includes odd situations,
little character development,
meaningless dialogue, and
seemingly random plot actions.
CHARACTERS
 CHARACTERS
• a middle-aged man who is apparently
PETER average in every way—“neither fat nor
gaunt, neither handsome nor homely”.

• He lives in a nice apartment on the

Upper East Side of New York with his
wife and two daughters, and he works
as a textbook publisher, a profession
that fits with his seeming belief that
things can generally be simply or
easily explained.
 CHARACTERS
• slightly younger than Peter and
JERRY much less wealthy than him; he is
also erratic, possessed of “a great
weariness” but also of great
strength. Jerry has no living family
nor does he have a romantic
partner, as he struggles to
establish either sexual or
interpersonal intimacy with other
people.
SETTING
The whole play is set
near a bench in New York
City's Central Park.
SUMMARY
The Zoo Story takes place on a
Sunday afternoon in New York
City’s Central Park. Peter, a
middle-class man of some means,
is reading quietly on a park
bench, as he does every Sunday.
His reading is interrupted by
His reading is interrupted by
Jerry, who is somewhat
younger and looks a bit
shabby, and who stands near
the bench and announces (out
of the blue) that he has “been
to the zoo.”
Peter doesn’t understand why this
stranger has chosen to talk to him,
but after trying unsuccessfully to
return to his book, he begins to
engage. Jerry again brings up the
zoo, and mysteriously hints that
something “happened” there.
Peter (still sitting) and Jerry
(still standing) begin to
discuss Peter’s family: Peter
is married and has two
daughters, two cats and
two parakeets.
Jerry correctly assumes that
Peter is not fully satisfied with his
domestic life—Peter wanted sons
and dogs. Peter is upset that
Jerry has asked about such
private information, and Jerry
apologizes.
After Jerry apologizes, He
explains that he doesn’t
talk to a lot of people, but
that when he does he likes
to “get to know somebody,
know all about him.”
Peter says these questions make
him feel like a “guinea pig,” but
he continues to answer them,
telling Jerry that he works in
textbook publishing and lives in a
nice apartment on the Upper East
Side.
Jerry begins to pace as he explains to
Peter that he traveled all over New
York City in order to approach the zoo
from the right direction—because
“sometimes a person has to go a very
long distance out of his way in order
to come back a short distance
correctly.”
“sometimes a person has to go a very
long distance out of his way in order
to come back a short distance
correctly.”

"Sometimes you have to go a long

distance out of your way to come
back a short distance, correctly."
Peter guesses that Jerry lives in
Greenwich Village, but Jerry
accuses Peter of trying to
“pigeonhole” him and reveals
that he lives on the Upper West
Side in a run-down boarding
house.
Jerry describes the other
tenants in his boarding-
house, his minimal list of
possessions, and his sad
family backstory.
After some more discussion of the
zoo, Jerry launches into a long
monologue about the boarding-house
landlady and her dog. Jerry describes
his disgust with the landlady, who
drinks heavily and often comes on to
Jerry. Peter is horrified about his
descriptions.
Jerry, though, focuses on the
landlady’s dog, who tries to attack
Jerry every time he comes into the
entry hall. Jerry tells Peter that he
had tried to befriend the dog, feeding
it hamburger meat every day for a
week.
But the landlady’s dog would eat
the meat and then still attack Jerry,
so Jerry formulated a new plan—to
murder the dog with poisoned meat.
Peter is shocked by this confession,
but Jerry explains that his attempt
to kill the dog was also
unsuccessful.
Jerry then explains that after
failing at both befriending and
murdering the dog, he was
curious about what his “new
relationship [with the dog]
might come to.”
He says that he felt that if he
couldn’t “make a start” with a dog,
he may not be able to find
connection or understanding
anywhere—maybe not even with
god, who Jerry fears “turned his
back on the whole thing some time
ago.”
Jerry tells Peter that he and the
dog now “neither love nor hurt
because we do not try to reach
each other.” Jerry concludes his
monologue and sits down, for the
first time in the entire play.
Peter, upset, tells Jerry he doesn’t
“understand” the story. Jerry
accuses Peter of lying, insisting that
he must understand because Jerry
explained everything as clearly as he
could. Peter apologizes for upsetting
Jerry, and begins to get up from the
bench.
Before Peter leave, Jerry explains
that he went to the zoo to learn
about how people and animals “exist
with each other,” but “it probably
wasn’t a fair test” he said. Jerry
pokes Peter on the arm, and tells him
to “move over” on the bench.
Jerry keeps punching Peter and
ordering him to “MOVE OVER!,”
even when Peter is crowded on one
end of the bench. Peter gets angry
and, as Jerry gets more violent,
begins to yell for the police. Jerry
mocks Peter, calling him a
“vegetable.”
The argument escalates, and Jerry
warns Peter that if he wants the
bench back, he will have to “fight
for it…like a man.” As Peter gets
ready to fight, Jerry pulls out a
switchblade—but instead of using it
himself, he tosses it at Peter’s feet.
Peter is reluctant to pick up the
switchblade, but as soon he picks
up the knife, Jerry runs onto it
and screams like a “fatally
wounded animal.” Peter panics,
repeating “oh my god” over and
over again.
Jerry reveals “what happened at
the zoo” he decided he would find
someone (like Peter) to talk to.

This line suggests that maybe he had

somehow planned this whole interaction.
Jerry then thanks Peter for “comforting”
him.

Jerry wipes Peter’s fingerprints off of the

switchblade, and advises Peter to run.
Peter lets out a “pitiful howl” and runs
offstage. As Jerry dies, he whispers “oh
my god”—and the play ends.
That is the story
of the “Zoo
Story”
 LET’S
ANSWER
As you get to know
the characters, would
you say you are like
Peter or Jerry? In
what way?
Have you already
encountered someone
like Jerry? How did
you deal with him?
 ASSIGNMENT:
BOOK ACTIVITIES
(to be checked tomorrow)

• Page 113: Exercises A, B, C

• Page 115: Exercise B, C
• Page 116: Drive On A, B
THANK
YOU!
See you next week!