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5 A Tale of Two Brothers

Warm Up

● Do you have brothers and sisters?
● What are the things you do together?

● What are the things you like about them?

● Is there anything you dislike about them?

Reading skills

This is a story of ideal brotherhood, of selflessness and true love between two brothers.

A long time ago in a distant town, there lived two brothers. They had a large farm.

Both shared the work equally and they shared the fruits of the harvest equally as well.
The elder brother was married and had seven children. The younger brother was single and

lived alone.

One year, the harvest was very good and the two brothers divided it equally between them.
But that night, the younger brother could not sleep. He said to himself,
“My poor elder brother has to feed his wife and seven children. It

doesn’t feel right that he and I each get the same amount
of harvest. He needs more grain than I.”

That very night, he took a sack of grain from
his own barn and walked across the fields to

put it into the barn of his brother. And the
very same night, the older brother said to
himself, “My poor younger brother has

no family to take care of him. When he
gets old, he will have no one to help him
with his work and to help feed him. It is
not fair that we get the same amount of

the harvest. He needs more grain than
I.” He also took a sack of grain from his

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