Momotaro
Tiddalick
Three little pigs
Culture/Mythology
Grammar
100

Who found the giant peach and where did they find it?

The old lady. She found it at the river where she was washing her clothes

100

Who is Tiddalick and what kind of animals are they?

Tiddalick is the protagonist of the story and they are a giant frog

100

Who's the protagonist of the story? Who's the antagonist?

Three little piglets - Protagonist

The wolf - Antagonist

100

A creature called oni(おに) in most of Japanese folktales are closely related to what western mythological creature?

Ogre or Demon

100

What is a verb?

1) Name of a place or things

2) A word that are used to describe something

3) A word that indicates an actions

4) A word in which are used to connect multiple sentences together. 

3!

200

Who stole the treasure from the village? Where did they take it to?

The Oni/Oniousama stole the treasure and they took it to the Oni's island.

200

What category does Tiddalick the frog story falls in to?

A) Folk tales

B) Fairy tales

C) Dreamtime 

D) all of the above

C) Dreamtime

200

In what sequence of houses did the big bad wolf destroyed?  

Straw house > Wood house > Stone house (But couldn't do it)

200

Fill in the blank:

Folktales were often employed to share a common history, to reinforce cultural values or highlight important traditions. ... As folktales were passed down from one 1)____________  to the other they modeled behaviors and helped reinforce expectations about how to live a meaningful 2)______________.

1) Generations

2) Life

200

In English, our grammar goes Subject Verb Object.

E.g. I ate an apple

What would Japanese grammar look like?

e.g. Watashi wa ringo o tabemashita.

1) Subject Verb Object

2) Subject Object Verb

3) Verb Object Subject

2) Subject Object Verb

e.g. Watashi wa ringo o tabemashita.

> I apple ate. (From Japanese literal translation)

> I ate an apple. (To make sense in English)

300

In what sequence of event in terms of the animals did Momotaro met them in?

First Dog

Second Monkey

Third Pheasants

300

Name the species of the bird or its actual name in the story of Tiddalick. 

What did they do in the story? Did they made Tiddalick laugh?

Kookaburra or Googuugaga 

They tell a joke and Tiddalick didn't laugh

300

What's the Japanese word piglets and wolf?

Kobuta こぶた

Ookami おおかみ

300

A fairy tale is a story, often intended for 1)___________, that features fanciful and wondrous 2)____________ such as elves, goblins, wizards, and even, but not necessarily, fairies. Unlike today's novels, their main purpose is to give a 3)____________ in a way the audience will remember. They exist to teach a clear lesson.

1) Children

2) Characters

3) Moral

300

Identify the Object and Verb in the sentence below.

Hint: 

Japanese: Subject > Object > Verb

English: Subject > Verb > Object

> The piglets built houses.

> Kobuta wa uchi o tatemashita.

> こぶた は うち を たてました。

Object: Houses (Uchi >うち)

Verb: Built (Tatemashita > たてました)

400

Where did momotaro get his name from? and why?

Momotaro get his name from the old couples because he was born from the giant peach.

Momo = Peach

Taro = Boy

400

What species of animals made Tiddalick laugh? How did they manage to make Tiddalick laugh?

The Eel, by dancing and swirling in the most silliest way possible. 

400

>In the story, what is the relationship between the wolf and the three piglet?

>In the wild, what would be the relationship between a wolf and a pig?

>Enemy

>Predator and Prey

400

Fill in the blank

Dreamtime or Dreaming for Australian 1)_____________ people represents the time when the Ancestral Spirits progressed over the land formation, production of life and the occurrence of 2)____________ disasters. These legends are handed down through 3)______________. The process involves story, art, ceremony and song. A great example of this is demonstrated through the story of Tiddalick, which explains the events of the great 4)____________.

1) Aboriginal

2) Natural

3) Generations

4) Flood

400

Identify the Subject, Object and Verb in the sentence below.

> Peach boy and friends fought the ogre king.

> momotaro to tomodachi wa oniousama o tatakaimashita.

> ももたろ と ともだち は おにおうさま を たたかいました。


S: Peach Boy (ももたろ と)and Friends (ともだち は)

O: Ogre king(おにおうさま を)

V: Fought(たたかいました)

500

List out all of the character from Momotaro in Japanese!

ももたろ;おじいさん;おばあさん;いぬ;さる;フェザント(きじ);おに

500

Who was the one that gave the the suggestion of making Tiddalick laugh?

The wise old owl

かしこい ふくろう

500

In the original story of three little pigs, the actual villain is...

A) Fox

B) Weasel

C) Wolf

D) Racoon

A) Fox

He tricked 2 pigs to open their door and met his fatal end by falling from a chimney into a pot of boiling water.

500

Which of the following statement is true?

1) Folk tales solves their problem with magical elements

2) Fairy tales are not intended for children as there is no moral to the story

3) The dreamtime are a part of the Aboriginal culture as it retells many events of the past and how things came into being

4) All of the above

3!

500

Identify the Subject/s

Identify the Verb/s

Identify the Object/s

> Momotaro wa 「watashi wa oniousama no shima ni ikimasu.」to iimashita.

> ももたろは「わたしはおにおうさまのしまに行きます」と言いました。


Subject: Peach boy (Momotaro), I (watashi)

Verb: To go (Ikimasu), Said (Iimashita)

Object: Ogre king's Island (Oniousama no shima)

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