This is a listening/ reading comprehension intended for an ESL class to encourage discussion, collaboration and knowledge through folktales, vocabulary and visuals.

This is the Indonesian Folktale of Timun Emas. It is a story of loneliness, a mother's love and a will to survive. The ogre grants the barren women's wish for a child, only to be taken at her 6th birthday as  meal. The woman is so desperate and lonely that she accepts the wish. She grows attached to the girl and seeks help from the hermit to help her child defeat the ogre and live in peace together.

Timun Emas - Indonesian Folktales

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