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Physical Education
Quarter 2 – Module 1.2:
Social Dances: Cha -Cha
MAPEH – Grade 9
Quarter 2 – Module 1: Social Dances: Cha-cha
First Edition, 2020

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Physical Education
Quarter 2 – Module 1.2:
Social Dances: Cha -Cha
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:
As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress
while allowing them to manage their own learning at home.
Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as
they do the tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

As a learner, you must learn to become responsible of your own
learning. Take time to read, understand, and perform the different
activities in the module.
As you go through the different activities of this module be
reminded of the following:
1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any
part of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the
exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer Let Us Try before moving on to the other
activities.
3. Read the instructions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking
your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are done.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this
module, do not hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always
bear in mind that you are not alone. We hope that through this material,
you will experience meaningful learning and gain deep understanding
of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 Let Us Learn
Before we start, I would like to know how far you know about
the Western Music. Specifically, it seeks to achieve the learning
competency Executes the skills in the dance;PE9RD-IIb-h4

And we will focus our learning objectives with the following:

1. define the social dances

2. perform the basic steps of cha-cha at home and send the video
clip to his/her teacher.
3. appreciate the importance of engaging into social dances

Are you ready? Let’s do this. Now, let us start learning about this
module. See you and good luck!

Let Us Try
Connect and Relate
Materials needed: Pen and Intermediate paper
Instruction:
1. The following are terms associated with the lesson:
a. Social Dancing
b. Ballroom Dance
c. Dance Sport
2. Select two which is most familiar to you.
3. Create a big circle at the center and write the chosen term.

4. Draw as many lines as connections you can give about the

term outside the circle.

5. At the end of the line write a word that describes your

experience, description or anything that can say about the
term you chose.

6. Organize your thoughts make a sentence that connect all the

ideas to describe the terms you selected.

Example:

Movements Music

DANCE

Idea Art

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Dance is a form of ART which consist of body MOVEMENTS both motor and
locomotor skills, it is usually accompanied with MUSIC to truly express the
IDEA or thoughts.

Criteria:
Content-10 points
Grammar-5points
Guide Question:
1. What are their differences or similarities?
____________________________________________________________________
2. Where do people usually perform those dances?
____________________________________________________________________
3. Does it affect the lifestyle of every people if they engage into those
dances? Why?
___________________________________________________________________

Let Us Study
Social dances/Ballroom dances

• Dance in pairs, male and female but may also perform in

group.
• Classified into two Latin American Dances and Modern
Standard Dances.
• Latin dances are mostly coming from the Latin-American
countries. This dance distinguishes by the costumes worn by
the performers. They are somewhat revealing, tight fitting,
sexy yet sophisticated in nature. They are freer and can
performed in close or open hold.
• Modern Standard wear formal, ankle-length gowns for females
and coat -and-tie for males. Most of the time, movements in
these are restricted to close ballroom position with partner.
• Social or ballrooms dances are different from dance sport
because they were performed in competition that requires
proper training and athleticism, stablish rules of different level
of difficulty.
• Dance mixers are social dances which allow group of
performers to change partners periodically while dancing to
allow chance to get to know other members of the performing
group.
This are the origin of dances in both Latin-American and Modern Standards
groups.
LATIN ORIGIN MODERN ORIGIN
AMERICAN STANDARD
DANCES DANCES

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Cha-cha, Rumba, Cuba Slow Waltz Austria
Salsa, Mambo
Samba Brazil Tango Argentina

Paso Doble Spain Viennese Vienna

Waltz
Jive/Boogie, USA Foxtrot USA
Swing
Merengue Dominican Republic Quickstep USA

The cha-cha-cha (also called cha-cha), is a dance of Cuban origin. It is

danced to the music of the same name introduced by Cuban composer and
violinist Enrique Jorrin in the early 1950s. This rhythm was developed from
the danzón-mambo. The name of the dance is an onomatopoeia derived from
the shuffling sound of the dancers' feet when they dance two consecutive
quick steps (correctly, on the fourth count of each measure) that characterize
the dance.
Now, I want you to find a place and demonstrate the basic step in Cha-cha.

BASIC NAME OF STEPS STEP PATTERN COUNTING

Weigh Transfer
1 R-Bw, L-Fw 1,2
(Rock Step)

2 R Chasse Fw R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw 1 and 2

Step l across R in front, Step
R in place, Chasse L Sw, Step
3 New York (L over R) 1,2,1 and 2
R over L in front, Chasse R
Sw.

L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R)

4 Alemana Turn R-Fw (Pivot Halfway Turn R 1,2
leading to Chasse L Bw

Legend;
L – Left Foot Fw- Forward
R – Right Foot Bw – Backward C – Close St

Follow up Question:
1. If you were the performer how can you assess the steps in cha-cha?
Isn’t simple or difficult? why?
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

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 Let Us Practice
Dance with me!
Materials Needed: Android Phone, Printed copy of step patterns
Instruction:
1. Set up your android phone to the best view and make
sure that your whole-body part is visible.
2. Video yourself and demonstrate the steps patterns given
below. You can download the
CHA-CHA STEP PATTERNS
Introduction:
Cha cha music is composed in 4/4 time (four beats to a
bar of music). For each bar of music there are 2 slow
and 3 quick steps, which may be counted as – one, two,
cha, cha, cha or step, step, step, quick step, quick step.
The footwork is simple and mostly focuses on just
shifting weight from one foot to another.

BASIC NAME OF STEPS STEP PATTERN COUNTING

Weigh Transfer
1 R-Bw, L-Fw 1,2
(Rock Step)

2 R Chasse Fw R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw 1 and 2

Step l across R in front, Step
New York (L over R in place, Chasse L Sw, Step
3 1,2,1 and 2
R) R over L in front, Chasse R
Sw.

L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R)

Alema
4 R-Fw (Pivot Halfway Turn R 1,2
na Turn
leading to Chasse L Bw

3. Submit your output to the messenger/fb account of

your teacher, leave your Full name and section below.
Criteria:
Execution – 15 points
Showmanship – 5 points
Stage Presence – 10 points
Total - 30 points

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 Let Us Practice More
Describe the given title of the steps in cha-cha.

Name Description

Weigh Transfer
(Rock Step)

New York (L over R)

Alemana Turn

R Chasse Fw

Let Us Remember

Social Dance: Cha-cha

Social dance-Social dancing is a non-competitive version of ballroom
and latin dancing. It is comprised of all the same dances, like
Foxtrot, Tango, Swing, or Cha-Cha, but designed to be used in
practical settings like wedding receptions, nightclubs, business
functions, or informal gatherings.
Social dance helps to do the following:
• Reduce stress and tension -
• Increase energy and improve strength – it helps your body in
good shape and increase your energy level.
• Increase your stamina and flexibility
• Improve your well-being- dancing elevates your mood by
raising the endorphins (feel good chemical)

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 Let Us Assess
Direction: Encircle the letter of your answer

Multiple choice: Read the statements carefully. Choose only the letter of the correct
answer. Use a ¼ sheet of paper and write your name and section, copy the
corresponding number.

1. Which of the following is a term used to refer dance primarily intended

to get to know other people in a certain formal or semi-formal
occasion?
a. Ballroom dance b. Dancesport c. Festival dance d. Social
dance

2. Social dances are of two classification namely, Latin American and

Modern Standard Dancers. Which of the following is an example of
Modern standard Dances?
a. Cha-cha b. jive c. rumba d. tango

3. Which of the following best describes the social dances?

a. Social dances are for pairs only
b. Social dances can be competed
c. Social dances are dances that improves social skills and fitness
d. Social dances are dances that entertain people in attendance to
social function.

4. How do social dances contribute to one’s fitness and well-being?

a. They help make one physically engaged and active preventing
lifestyle diseases.
b. They cure lifestyle diseases
c. They help prevent sedentary lifestyle-related diseases
d. they develop one’s talent in dancing

5. Which of the following, aside from the fitness, can be developed If one
engages in social dancing activities?
a. Respect
b. Sense of community
c. Courtesy
d. All of them

6. Which of the following statement is correct?

a. Cha-cha gives stress and tension
b. It decreases the energy
c. Increases your stamina and flexibility
d. It doesn’t improve your strength

7. Social dancing can prevent some diseases caused by sedentary

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 lifestyle, if regularly performed. Which of the following does NOT
belong to the group?
a. Diabetes b. lung cancer c. obesity d. weight gain

8. “it takes two to tango” What does this quote mean?

a. A tango requires two individuals to dance
b. One cannot exist without the other
c. It takes two to take any endeavor work
d. There should always be two individuals dancing the tango

9. “May I have this dance?” This line implies…

a. A boy who treats a girl with respect even in dancing
b. A boy forcing a girl to dance
c. A boy with no one to dance with pleading
d. A boy who wishes to dance with somebody

10. The following are reasons why fitness is a universal concern

EXCEPT ONE;
a. We face different challenges everyday so we have to keep
ourselves fit all the time to overcome them
b. Everyone needs to be physically fit to meet daily physical
challenges
c. One can influence the community fitness consciousness
effectively if he or she fosters fitness and well-being
d. To be a good athlete or player in a certain sport

11. What is the correct step pattern of Alemana Turn?

a. R-Bw, L-Fw
b. L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R), R-Fw (Pivot Halfway Turn R), leading
to Chasse L Bw
c. Step l across R in front, Step R in place
d. R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw

12. What is the correct step pattern of New York?

a. Step l across R in front, Step R in place, Chasse L Sw, Step R
over L in front, Chasse R Sw.
b. R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw
c. R-Bw, L-Fw
d. L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R)

13. What is the correct step pattern of Weigh Transfer (Rock Step)?
a. Step l across R in front, Step R in place, Chasse L Sw, Step R
over L in front, Chasse R Sw.
b. R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw
c. R-Bw, L-Fw
d. L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R)

14. In social dancing, aboy leads while a girl follows. What values

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a. Leadership obedience c. respect all of them
15. What happens if one doesn’t have physically active lifestyle?
a. He/she is prone to weight again, obesity which may lead to
diabetes and other cardio-vascular diseases
b. He/she will not be physically fit
c. He/she will become sickly
d. He/she will become fat

Let Us Enhance
Compeltion: the following is a table indicating the basic steps ,
steps patterns and counting in cha-cha. Fill in the missing link
with the required answer as numbered (8points).

NAME OF STEPS STEP PATTERN COUNTING

L-Fw (Pivot Ahlfway Turn R)
Alemana Turn R-Fw (Pivot Halfway Turn R 1. _______________
leading to Chasse L Bw
2. ______________ R-Fw, L-C to R, R-Rw 1 and 2

Weigh Transfer
3. ______________________ 1,2
(Rock Step)

New York (L over R) 4. ______________________ 1,2,1 and 2

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 Let Us Reflect

Today you have learned the fundamentals of social dancing and its relation
to maintaining and improving an active healthy lifestyle, it’s now your turn to
share what you have learned with your family, friend and immediate
community. You performed also the basic steps in cha-cha that could
somehow help you to exercise your bones and muscles to promote healthy
lifestyle. You realize also the importance of engaging into social dance, it
allows you to bond with your family while learning.

Congratulations! You have accomplished this module and you did a great job!
I hope you enjoy answering this module and continue this enthusiasm with
the following modules. See you! God Bless

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6. 1,2
7. R Chasse Fw
8. R-Bw, L-Fw
9. Step l across R in front, Step R in place, Chasse L Sw, Step
R over L in front, Chasse R Sw.
Let Us Enhance
1. D. 6. C 11. B.
2. D 7. B 12. A
3. C 8. C 13. C
4. A 9. A 14. C
5. D 10. D 15. B
Let Us Assess
Answer Key
 References

Doria, Gonzales, Sedilla, Cagulang. Grade 9 Physical Education and Health

book, First edition 2014

Murray,Arthur. (2018) What is social dancing retrieved from

https://www.arthurmurraylive.com/blog/what-is-social-dancing on
August 18, 2018

Kriesi. Benefits of social dance from

http://sitidance.com/benefits-social-dance/ on 2015
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