ASEAN

LITERATURE
TOPIC 6: CAMBODIA

Presented by:
Lustado | Magboo | Manalo | Medallada
CAMBODIA AND ITS
LITERATURE
CAMBODIA Heart of Asia
Khmers
Khmer
Angkor Wat
Khmer Rouge
U Sam Ouer
 OBJECTIVES
1. Determine the word from the
unscrambled letters with its meaning
2. Describe the setting of Cambodian's
short stories and discuss how it
influences the story's plot
3. Characterize the main and minor
characters of the story
4. Highlight the figurative words used in
poetry
5. Ascertain the moral lesson of the story
6. Compare the story to a real life situation
7. Accomplish varied multi-modal activities
Vocabulary at work

1. tifiupl (full of commiseration,

meanness)
Vocabulary at work

2. seurdpijce (preconceived
judgement)
Vocabulary at work

3. eirmises (state of suffering)

Vocabulary at work

4. niesicvdie (not definite)

Vocabulary at work

5. rbbeis (unjust bait)

Let's learn
Cambodian
words
 formal informal
Jumreap sua Soo-a sdei
GOOD BYE
formal informal
Jumreaplia lea hery
SORRY
formal
Soumtooh
THANK YOU
formal
Orkun
 YES
for woman for man
Jaah Baat
 NO
for both, male and female

Teh
Oh-teh
 TOPIC OUTLINE
The Crocodile and the five judges

Bed bug and the louse

The two women scambled for a baby

The Crocodile
and The Five
Judges
 Once there was a
male crocodile crawling out of a lake
which had just dried up. He had tears in his
eyes due to his miseries induced by having
no food and water.
 The crocodile met a cart-driver
and asked for his help to get to a
river. The cart-driver agreed and
tied him to the cart. Arriving at a
river, the cart driver untied the
crocodile and let him crawl down
 So ungrateful was the dishonest crocodile
that after it had drunk its fill and gained
back strength, it said to the cart-driver: "you
tied me so tightly that I almost choked to
death. Now, you must give me one of your
oxen to eat and I will forgive you, or I will eat
you right now"
 They both asked a nearby
fisherman to judge whose fault it
was. The fisherman was terrified
of the crocodile and thought that
it might bite him someday if he
favors the cart driver. The
fisherman judged the cart driver
guilty.
 Then came a one-armed man.
Having his arm bitten by another
crocodile, he was mad at
crocodiles. Therefore, he judged
the crocodile guilty.
 A lizard came crawling and the
crocodile called it to judge the
case. The lizard was a friend of
the crocodile, so the lizard decided
that the cart driver was guilty.
 A monkey came down the river to drink water. They
asked the monkey to judge the case. The cart driver
offered to give the monkey food if he will say that the
crocodile was guilty. The monkey did so.
Then the crocodile offered more food and the
monkey judged the cart driver guilty. The cart driver
once again offered more. The monkey kept making
indecisive judgement and left for the forest.
 A wise rabbit came hopping by. He was
begged to judge them. The rabbit asked
them to reenact what happened to be
able to judge who is guilty.

The crocodile was tied with rope again.

The rabbit asked "did he tie you as tightly
as he did now?"
"No. I would not have been angry with him
at all if he had tied me this way," the
crocodile answered.

Then it was tighter. And then tighter. The

crocodile's eyes stuck out. Then he told
the rabbit: "yes, he had tied me as tightly
as now."
 The rabbit found out that the crocodile
was just making up stories and he would
have died before arriving to the river if
he was tied too tight. The rabbit told the
cart-driver: "take out your ax and chop
off his head. He is very ungrateful, so do
not let him live any longer." This was the
fifth judge who judged fairly without the
four prejudices.
The ungrateful crocodile was at that time
killed by the cart-driver, who later gave
out the crocodile’s meat to the villagers.
As for the crocodile’s head which was
tied near the yoke of the cart, had been
since then called the crocodile’s head of
the cart by the villagers.
POST READING ACTIVITY
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. Characterize the crocodile.

2. Who are the five judges? Describe each of them as judge

in the story.
3. Check the figurative words used in the story
and explain its meaning.

4. If you are going to be the judge on the situation

depicted in the story, who would you choose?

5. What is the moral lesson of the story?

6. Relate the situation depicted in the story in a

real life situation.
BED BUG AND
THE LOUSE
 OBJECTIVES
A. Provide the meaning of the
given phrases
B. Characterize the girl in the short
story “Bed bug and the Louse”
C. Compare the girl in the story to
the girls in this generation
D. Ascertain the impact of the story
and acquire life lesson
E. Accomplish varied multi-modal
activities
VOCABULARY
Give the meaning of the following phrases below.

1. Swarms of bed bugs

2. Kinky hair
3. Laughed mockingly
4. End of the world
5. Crushing with Thumbnail
BED BUG AND
THE LOUSE
LET'S START LISTENING...

In the room of a dirty girl, there were swarms of bed bugs living in
the pleats of mattress, mat, pillows, bolsters and mosquito net. And
there were a lot of dirty lice in her head with kinky hair.

One day, the girl was combing lice out of the hair, putting them down
on the mat and crushing them with thumbnail when a big louse ran
away to hide in the lace of the mat.
LET'S START LISTENING...

Swarms of bed bugs on seeing the frightened lice hiding

themselves laughed mockingly at them and said: eh, brother lice! Have
you stolen sucking people’s blood enough? Why do you come to greet
us? You must be very happy because there are a plough and a harrow
to plough and harrow you every day. As for us, we do not have such to
eat like you, brother.
LET'S START LISTENING...

The lice were very angry. They knew that the bed bugs envied
them as they had not much to eat, so they insulted the bed buds: Hey,
you have the stench even when you are still alive. We know that you
must envy us because you cannot steal sucking people’s blood enough.
As for us, you must not despise us. Although people try hard to plough
or harrow, we will never be completely destroyed except when the end
of the world by fire comes.
LET'S START LISTENING...
While the bed bugs and the lice were arguing, the girl stopped
combing the hair and lied to sleep. Out of being very angry with the
bed bugs, the lice bit the girl’s head so hard that she could not sleep still
so that the bed bugs could not suck her blood. The girl felt so annoyed
when she could not sleep as her head was bitten hard by the lice that
she got up and asked her mother to shave her head. While her head
was being shaved, the lice panicked and told one another that: it is the
end of the world now and we will soon be destroyed. After having had
her head shaved, the girl gathered the hair fraught with dirty lice and
lice’s eggs, burn it up and then came back to sleep. Upon seeing the
girl’s shaved head, the bed bugs were delighted and though: we will
suck all her blood along and there will be nobody interfering because
all the lice were gone.
LET'S START LISTENING...

Some bed bugs tried to bite the girl’s shaved head. The girl kept
scratching the head and thought: my hair is all gone and what lice are
biting my head? Later on, when her head was bitten again, the girl got
up and saw some beg bugs crawling on the pillow. She became so
furious that she gathered pillow, bolster, mosquito net and the
mattress and soaked them in the boiling water, killing all the bed bugs.
POST READING ACTIVITY
Answer the following questions below.

What descriptions can Why do you think the

you give to the girl in girl has swarms of bed
the story? bugs and lice

Check the figurative Are bugs and lice,

words used in the friends or foe? Explain
story and explain its why.
POST READING ACTIVITY
Answer the following questions below.

Relate and compare the girl

in the story to the girls of
this generation.

What is the life lesson you

may get from this story?
 THE TWO

WOMEN

SCRAMBLED

FOR A BABY
MEDALLADA, IVAN JOSEPH L.
OBJECTIVES
1. Determine the connotative and denotative

meaning of the given words.

2. Determine the mood created by the setting in

the story. "The Two Women Scrambled for a

Baby"
3. Describe the characters of the story.
4. Craft another ending of the story.
DENOTATION & CONNOTATION

The lexical or

dictionary meaning of

word

An idea or feeling that a

word invokes in addition

to its literal meaning

PRE-READING ACTIVITY
Give the denotative and connotative meaning of the

following words.
1. Baby
2. Mother
3. Impostor
4. Judge
5. Home
THE TWO

WOMEN

SCRAMBLED

FOR A BABY
LET'S START LISTENING...
Once there were two women who had respective babies. The baby
of one woman had died and the baby of another woman was still alive.
One day, the woman with the live baby held her baby in the arm to
bathe it. Coincidentally, the woman whose baby had already been dead
came and walking and said. “Hi friend, your baby exactly resembles
mine. Can I hold and kiss yours little?” The woman with the baby
handed her baby to that woman, who kissed and breastfed the baby
and walked to her home with the baby being held in her hands. The
woman who was the mother called out: “Hey, where are you taking my
baby?” The woman whose baby had died replied: It is my baby. Why
do you say it is yours?
LET'S START LISTENING...
The two women started quarrelling about the baby and they finally
went to the court together. The woman who took the other woman’s
baby told the judge: Your honour, when I was holding my baby, this
woman saw it walked after me, claiming that the baby was hers. She
asked me allow her to hold and kiss my baby and I let her do it, but she
kissed and breastfed my baby and walked to her home with my kid, so
please help solve the problem for me, your honour. The judge spent
three days and nights solving the case, but could not settle it, so he took
the two women to see the king and told the king what had happened.
Out of his insight and extra ordinary wisdom, the king was able to see
through the problem quickly, so he ordered the kid to be placed in the
middle and told the two women to try to scramble for it.
LET'S START LISTENING...
The king said to the two women. The kid will belong to the one
who can scramble for it first. Upon hearing that, the two women
started scrambling for the baby. The woman whose baby had been
dead quickly snatched the baby’s leg mercilessly without being afraid
of tearing its arm and legs. As the woman who was the baby’s real
mother, she was very angry with the impostor, but she pitied the baby
so much that she tried to hold the baby gently. However, when she saw
the impostor doing her utmost to get the baby without caring about
breaking the kid’s bones, the woman who was the real mother let go of
her poor kid and allowed the impostor to get it easily.
LET'S START LISTENING...
The king then said: the woman who let go of the baby and allowed the
other woman to get the baby was the real mother as she did it out of
pitying the kid. And the other woman is not the real mother because
she did not show any mercy to the kid and tried to get the kid, by hook
and by crook. After saying that, the king ordered the baby returned to
the real mother and the woman who was the impostor to be severely
punished so that she would not dare to do that again.
POST-READING ACTIVITY
1. How will you describe the two women in the story?
2. 1.What was the mood created by the setting of the story? Describe
it.
3. How was the relationship between the characters in the story?
4. Describe the king and the way he solved the problem of the women.
5. Suppose that you meet these two women; what will your strategy
be to determine the real mother between them.
6. Do you like the ending? Why or why not? What other endings can
you suggest?
7. What is the life lesson you may get from this story? How does this
story apply to your life?
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING!