This is a PPT on How My Brother Leon brought home a wife

1. HOW MY
BROTHER LEON
BROUGHT
HOME A WIFE
By Manuel Arguilla

2. • What are your favorite
places or establishments in
the city?
• What do you like most
about the city? What do
you like the least about it?
• Do you have friends in the
city? What are they like?
City Life

3. • What are your favorite
places or establishments
in the barrio?
• What do you like most
about the barrio? What do
you like the least about it?
• Do you have friends in the
barrio? What are they like?
Rural Life

4. Let’s make some guesses about
the story.
1.What the story might be about?
2.How the characters might behave?
3.What problem is presented?
4.How will the story end?

5. Words to Remember
1. Labang never stopped chewing his cud. The food has
been sticking in his mouth.
2. Brother asked me to attach Labang to the cart.
“Hitch him to the cart,” he said.
3. The jolting of caratela became frequent. This is the
kind of shaking that is irritating.
4. From the way he talks, he seems like an ogre. A
monster indeed as he approaches.
5.I surmise she must be eating with the family. However,
I assume too that she will leave immediately after
dining.

6. • Who is Leon? Describe him.
• Describe Maria. Do you think she is a typical city girl? What is
her physical description? Does Baldo like her?
• Who is the person speaking/ narrating the story?
• Where is the setting of the story?
• What tests were given to Maria? Enumerate. If you were Maria,
would you survive the challenge?
• How did Maria deal with the test? Cite proof of Maria’s good
sense.
• What is the reason of the father why he tested Maria?
• Characterize the father. How does he react to events unfolding
before him?
Comprehension Questions:

7. • Maria was city bred yet she triumphantly overcomes her
trials. Could this be out of love? Could love change a
person’s character?
• What Filipino tradition is shown in the story?
• In today’s setting, if you are in a relationship, would you
still introduce the person you love to your parents?
• Manuel Arguilla is known as the most prominent author
who uses LOCAL COLOR in his story. What is local
color?
Comprehension Questions:

8. BREAD OF SALT
N.V.M Gonzales

9. Words to Remember
1. Everyone get mad at the man jostled in the front of
the line.
A. Push B. Stand C. Run
2. The patient reacted to the medication and began to
combulse.
A. Sleep B. Rest C. Shake
3. She nibbles a little in her meal.
A. Swallow B. bite C. Stock
4. She use mnemonic to remember the song.

10. Words to Remember
5. Typing job requires manual dexterity.
A. Awkwardness B. clumsiness C. quickness
6. She wants an expensive brooch to be worn at her neck.
A. Earing B. ring C. necklace
7. After years of torment, she left her husband.
A. Misery B. happiness C. glad

11. Words to Remember
8. It is her devout to help people in need.
A. Disloyal B. devotion C. bad
9. I was dumbstruck by his confession.
A. Shock B. calm C. quiet
10. The expensive car gets many covetous look.
A. Satisfying B. greedy C. suffice

12. 1. Why is pan de sal used as a significant
metaphor of the story? What is it trying to
establish?
2. Other pressing and perennial realities of Filipino
lives are presented in the story. What does the
story
say about the typical perspective towards
Philippine arts and music, financial setup and filial
piety
Comprehension Questions:

13. 3. What do you think is the possible reason/s why the
young boy threw the food he initially packed for
himself out the window?
4. If you were Aida, would you do the same and approach
the boy while he was packing food for himself?
Why?
5. Give an example of how we can see the young boy in
the story in real life. How do Filipinos in the
present time become ‘bread of salt or pan de sal?’
Comprehension Questions:

14. 6. In the last paragraph, what does the line it was not
quite five, and the bread was not yet ready mean? In
what many ways can we see this striking reality?
7. At the end of the story, what did the boy realize?
Comprehension Questions: