Intro
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All you need is a sock, really. A sock on your hand can be a puppet telling a story or singing a song. Puppets don’t have to be fancy or cost a lot of money for people to enjoy watching them. When you were a kid, you probably put on a puppet show for your family, and all you needed was a few socks and a box!
Today’s puppets can be very detailed and sophisticated. Learning how to make a puppet can be a long process, especially if you’re making its costume, too. There aren’t a lot of people who have this talent. It really is an unusual and wonderful art form.
Find out how Marni and Amanda feel about them in this English lesson about puppets.
Dialog
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Marni: So, Amanda, I am actually volunteering at a local puppet theater. Would you like to come to my show?
Amanda: I would, but I think puppets are a little bit creepy.
Marni: What? How can you think puppets are creepy?
Amanda: What grown person wants to make a little fake person dance?
Marni: I do. I think puppets are a wonderful art form. You get to create them and do costumes. If you’re really good at it, you can also be there with them doing a ventriloquist kind of thing.
Amanda: Oh, like Charlie McCarthy. Right? The most famous ventriloquist puppet in the world.
Marni: I actually don’t know about that. But anyway, there are lots of different ways to use puppets. It’s quite an art form.
Amanda: Does it bother you a little bit that you’re always in this world of make-believe, and you’re never in the world of reality?
Marni: Um, no. That’s why I love puppets!
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Discussion
Marni wants to convince Amanda that puppets are cool. She’s been spending her time at a local puppet theater and she invites Amanda to come to a show. Marni thinks that puppets are a true art form, and it’s obvious that she respects the people who make them.
Amanda could not be any less interested! She thinks puppets are creepy, and she thinks that adults should not be playing with puppets. Amanda prefers to live in reality, not a world of make-believe, and puppets definitely aren’t part of her reality.
Did you play with puppets when you were a kid? Have you seen a puppet show as an adult? What did you think?
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