This booklet is a collection of Mullah Nasruddin tales that are commonly enjoyed in Afghanistan. These tales have been adapted to form a course in controlled composition for students studying English as a foreign language. After reading each tale the student is asked to carry out certain tasks. In addition to the simplest task, copying the passage as written, and the most advanced task, rewriting the entire story without referring back to it, the following exercises for rewriting the passage are given: (1) change one noun or pronoun for another each time it appears, (2) substitute one tense for another, (3) use synonyms for the underlined words, (4) change the adjectives before nouns into clauses that follow the nouns, (5) supply adjectives before certain words, (6) use active voice instead of passive voice, and (7) supply adverbs before certain verbs. (CFM)