The Farmer and His Sons
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The Farmer and His Sons
Read and answer: What do you learn from the story?
In a small village, there lived an old farmer. He had six sons. His sons were always fighting with each other. This made the farmer very sad.
It was Mid - Autumn Day. The farmer and his sons sat in the garden and looked at the moon. Then he asked each of his sons to bring a stick to him. He tied all the sticks together. He said, "Break this bundle of sticks."


Each of his sons tried very hard to break the bundle of sticks. All of them could not break it. Then the farmer untied the bundle of sticks. He gave a stick to each of his sons and asked them to break it. They could break the sticks easily.
The farmer said to his sons, "You are strong if you are together. You are weak if each of you only cares about your own self."
Exercises
Ⅰ. Read and write. 读一读，写出下列单词的反义词。
1. tie
2. hard
3. strong
4. big
5. happy
6. apart
Ⅱ. Read and tick or cross. 读一读，判断对(√)错(×)。
() 1. The farmer lived in a big village.
() 2. The farmer was happy with his children.
() 3. The farmer got six sticks together.
() 4. The farmer's sons could break the bundle of sticks.
() 5. They could break the sticks when they had one stick each.
New words
fight /faɪt/ v. 打架
tie /taɪ/ v. 系上
break /breɪk/ v. 折断
bundle /'bʌndl/ n. 捆
untie /ʌn'taɪ/ v. 解开
weak /wiːk/ adj. 弱的
care about 在乎

Read and answer:
We are strong if we are together. We are weak if each of us only cares about our own self.
Ⅰ. Read and write.
1. untie
2. easy
3. weak
4. small
5. sad
6. together
Ⅱ. Read and tick or cross.
1. ×
2. ×
3. √
4. ×
5. √