🌾🕊 The Farmer and the Stork

Aesop’s Fable – Easy English Story for Ages 4–6

🎭 Character Descriptions

• 👨‍🌾 Farmer: A hard-working man in a straw hat. He wants to protect his crops from birds.

• 🕊 Stork: A tall white bird with long legs and kind eyes. He says he is not like the others.

📜 Script 

NARRATOR:
A farmer had a big field of seeds.
But every day, birds came and ate them.

So the farmer set a trap.

NARRATOR:
The next morning, he found many birds caught in his net.

One of them was a stork.

🕊 STORK:
“Please let me go! I’m not like the others.
I am a good bird. I didn’t eat your seeds.”

👨‍🌾 FARMER:
“You were with the birds who did wrong.
So you will face the same end.”

NARRATOR:
The stork begged and cried.
But the farmer didn’t change his mind.

NARRATOR (ending):
If you stay with those who do wrong,
you may be punished too.

THE END.

📚 Vocabulary 

1. field – a large open area for growing crops

2. trap – a thing used to catch animals or birds

3. net – rope or string woven together to catch things

4. seeds – small things from which plants grow

5. punish – to make someone pay for doing something wrong

💬 Useful Expressions 

1. “Please let me go!” – Asking to be freed

2. “I didn’t eat your seeds.” – Saying you’re innocent

3. “You were with the birds who did wrong.” – Guilt by association

❓Comprehension Questions 

1. What did the farmer grow in his field?

2. What did the birds do to the farmer’s seeds?

3. Why was the stork caught?

4. What did the stork say to the farmer?

5. What is the lesson of this story?