Each story is on an illustrated card. Learners read it and then retell it to a partner using a list of words or phases from the story on the back of the card as prompts and embellishing it as much as they want to. They can then retell the story several times to other students.

Nasreddin was born in rural Turkey around 1208. He became known as Hodja, the teacher. The stories about his adventures, his common sense, and droll sense of humor became true folk tales, told and retold by adults and children alike for over 700 years. They are known from Gibraltar to the Himalayas, from Timbuktu to Timor to Tajikistan, throughout the whole world touched by Islam.