1. What is the selection all about? 2. If you will become a tree, which will you choose? Mango tree or bamboo tree? 3. In this selection, the speaker compares Filipino to a bamboo tree. What do you think is the reason? 4. What dominant characteristic of the Filipinos are compared to those of a bamboo? What are the similarities between the Filipinos and the bamboo? 5. In the past, who lived with the Filipinos? 6. What changes did they bring to the Filipinos’ life? 7. What did the Filipinos do to face these changes? 8. Do you agree with the writer’s description of the Filipinos? Why? Why not? 9. What specific characteristics are you proud of? Why? 10. How do you think, history, culture, environment and other factors influence the author to express the themes of the story?