Outwitting a Crocodile

Retold by Chok Yoon Foo from Malaysia

(Theme: Cleverness
Sang Kancil is a clever, tricky mouse deer who is always finding himself in predicaments with animals that want to eat him or harm him, but
he cleverly manages to escape each time. In this story, Sang Kancil outwits a big, bad crocodile.
Sang Kancil was a clever mouse deer. Whenever he was in a bad situation, he always played a clever trick to escape. In this story, Sang
Kancil outwitted Sang Buaya, a big, bad crocodile, who wanted to eat him. There were many trees where Sang Kancil's lived along the
river, so he never had trouble finding food. There were always lots of leaves. He spent his time running and jumping and looking into the
river.
Sang Buaya, the big bad crocodile, lived in the river with other crocodiles. They were always waiting to catch Sang Kancil for dinner. One
day when Sang Buaya was walking along the river, he saw some delicious fruit on the trees on the other side the river.
Sang Kancil wanted to taste the tasty-looking fruit because he was a little tired of eating leaves. He tried to think of a way to cross the river,
but he had to be careful. He didn't want to be caught and eaten by Sang Buaya. He needed to trick Sang Buaya.
Sang Kancil suddenly had an idea He called out to the crocodile, "Sang Buaya! Sang Buaya!" Sang Buaya slowly came out of the water
and asked Sang Kancil why he was shouting his name. He asked Sang Kancil, "Aren't you afraid I will eat you?" Then he opened his big
mouth very wide to scare Sang Kancil.
Sang Kancil said, "Of course, I am afraid of you, but the king wants me to do something. He is having a big feast with lots of food, and he
is inviting everyone, including you and all the other crocodiles. But first, I have to count all of you. He needs to know how many of you will
come. Please line up across the river, so I can walk across your heads and count all of you."
Sang Buaya was excited and left to tell the other crocodiles about the feast with all the good food. Soon, they came and made a line across
the river. Sang Kancil said, "Promise not to eat me because or I can't report to the king how many of you are coming. They promised not to
eat him.
Sang Kancil stepped on Sang Buaya's head and counted one. Then he stepped on the next one and said, "Two." He stepped on each
crocodile, counting each one, and finally reached the other side of the river. Then he said to Sang Buaya,"Thank you for helping me to
cross the river to my new home."
Sang Buaya was shocked and angry. He shouted at Sang Kancil, "You tricked us! There is no feast, is there?" All of the crocodiles looked
at Sang Buaya angrily. They were angry because he let Sang Kancil trick all of them.
Sang Kancil loved his new home on the other side of the river because he had a lot of tasty food to eat. Poor Sang Buaya was not so lucky.
After that, none of the other crocodiles ever talked to him again.

Pilandok and the Crocodiles

Author: Victoria Aonuevo
Summary:
One morning, his mother asked Pilandok to pick mangoes in the village of Mabunga, Pilandok had to cross a river. But the
bridge had collapse and the river was home to large crocodiles.
Pilandok asked the leader of the crocodiles permission to cross the river but the leader told him that they eat whoever
crosses the river. Pilandok thought of a plan to cross the river safely. He asked the leader how many crocodiles are there,
and the leader answer twenty. Pilandok pretended to count and say that they are only ten crocodiles. The leader shouted
thats impossible, were twenty all in all.
Pilandok calmly said to the crocodile to line up so that he could count them all to be sure that no one is missing. The
crocodiles followed Pilandoks suggestion and line up side by side. Pilandok step on each crocodiles backs as he counts.
Pilandok hopped onto the other side of the river before finally shouting Twenty!
Pilandok hurriedly picked the mangoes and filled his bag with ripe, big, and sweet mangoes. He even ate some and fell
asleep after eating. It was afternoon when he woke up and was delighted when he saw the river quiet and without any
crocodiles.
When he reached the middle of the river, the crocodiles suddenly appeared. We will eat you, we want your liver, growled
the leader of the crocodiles. Wait, said Pilandok I left my liver at home because it is bad for my liver to get wet. Pilandok
jumped onto the back of the crocodile and said, Take me to the other side and I will get my liver from our house. When they
reached the shore, Pilandok quickly hopped off the back of the crocodile and ran home.
Twice, Pilandok succeeded in tricking the hungry crocodiles in the river. The crocodiles were foolish enough to believe that a
person could leave behind his own liver.
Pilandok returned with a piece of wood and asked the crocodiles who has the largest mouth so that he could give his liver for
it grew big when he left it at home. The leader of the crocodiles opened his mouth to the fullest and Pilandok put the piece of
wood inside his wide-opened mouth. It was too late for the crocodile to realize that he had again been deceived by the clever
Pilandok, who could not close his big mouth because of the piece of wood.

Date:______________
San Fabian National High School
ENGLISH 8
Second Grading ( Quiz # 5)
Name: _______________________________
Score: ________
Section: ______________________________
Teacher: ________________________

I. Based on the story you have previously read, Identify whether the statement is TRUE or FALSE.
__________ 1. The taxi man advocated the new young generations habits and lifestyle.
__________ 2. He believed that being strict is a good thing for parents.
__________ 3. He had two sons and six daughters.
__________ 4. One of his children was a teacher in a primary school.
__________ 5. According to him, the new generation of youth in Singapore was better than the old
generation.
__________ 6. The passenger was a former teacher.
__________ 7. Lay Choo was the name of the daughter whom the taxi man loved the most.
__________ 8. He wanted to send his beloved daughter to a university
__________ 9. One day, he almost killed his beloved daughter because of anger.
__________ 10. The Elroy Hotel was one of the most visited place in Singapore.
II. Match the words in column B with their descriptions in column A. Write the letter of your answer on
the space provided before the number.
Column A

Column B

Set 1
____ 1. He is a clever mouse deer.

a. clever tricks

____ 2. The deer saw it on the other side of the river.

b. Sang Kancil

____ 3. He is the big bad crocodile.

c. Sang Buaya

____ 4. It enables the deer to escape from the threat of the crocodiles.

d. delicious fruits

____ 5. He is the one who will be having a big feast.

e. King

Set 2
____ 6. Pilandok was asked to pick them in the village of Mabunga.

a. twenty

____ 7. He said that they eat whoever passes the river.

b. liver

____ 8. It is the number of crocodiles in the river.

c. piece of wood

____ 9. Pilandok said he left it at home so it will not get wet.

d. leader of the crocodiles

____ 10. Pilandok put it inside the crocodiles big mouth.

e. mangoes

Date:______________
San Fabian National High School
ENGLISH 8
Second Grading ( Output # 4)
Name: _______________________________
Score: ________
Section: ______________________________
Teacher: ________________________

I. Draw the scene or setting of The Taximans Story. Use the space provided below.

II. Directions: Complete this venn diagram to compare Sang Kancil to Pilandok. Write in the
overlapping part of the bubble their similarities. Then write their differences in the outer parts.

Sang Kancil

Pilandok