Mee: ‘S aAli Baba and the Forty ThievesOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, ox2 6pP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. Iefurthers the University sobjective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford isa registered trade ‘mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries {Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves ‘This eBook edition © Oxford University Press 2015 ‘The moral rights of the author have been asserted First published 2015 ISBN: 9780 19 462868 6 (code) & 978 019 462869 3 (imapp) Print edition isn: 978 0 19 424934 8 Print edition first published in Dominoes 2012 No copying or file sharing. ‘This digital publication is protected by international copyright laws. 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In her free time she enjoys reading history books and. modern novels, visiting other European countries, and drinking tea with her friends. She lives in the ancient town of Lewes in the south of England with her husband and their two children, She has written a number of books, including Henry Vill and his Six Wives, and King Arthur in the Oxford Bookworms series, and The Great Fire of London, Sinbad, Mulan, Hercules, and an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown in the Dominoes series. OXFORD ‘UNIVERSITY PRESSStory Characters Ali Baba The forty thieves Ali Baba’s wife Kasim, Kasim’s wife Ali ee son Ali Baba’s brother Morgiana, Arshad, the most Najid, Baba Mustafa, Ali Baba’s servant important thief Arshad's helper a cobblerContents Before Reading Thieves in the forest Activities In the treasure cave Activities Kasim visits the cave » Activities A thief in town Activities The chief arrives . Activities Clever Morgiana Activities Project A Project B Word WorkBEFORE READING 1 Match the words with the story characters. Use a dictionary to help you. cobbler_merchant servant chief ofsome thieves _woodcutter fa ila sete eee DKS Sic] e Baba Mustafa is a 2 Which person in the story is this? Write the names. a He rich with a nice shop. b He's poor with a little house ¢ He's old, but works well with his hands. d Shes young, quick, and clever, He's angry with Ali Baba and Kasim. viChapter 1 Ali Baba’s brother is a ri merchant. His name is Our story is about Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter in Persia. // i working in the forest. Suddenly he hears some men. They are coming nearer. forestbehind a tree before the men arrive. There are forty of them! He s The thieves stand near some rocks. Their chie' ‘Open Sesame!’ A door in the rock opens, and the men go into a cave. / Later, the thi | ‘Close Sesame!’ ¢ in that s. ‘I'd like to see.’ ina hillREADING CHECK Are these sentences true or false? Tick the boxes. True False Ali Baba has lots of money. wy Ali Baba’s brother, Kasim, has no money. Ali Baba is working in the garden. When Ali Baba hears some men, he goes behind a tree. There are fourteen men. The men are all thieves. The men cry, ‘Close Sesame, and they go into a cave. zyereaan ow Later, the men leave the cave. OOOOOO0OO0 ODOOOOOO Ali Baba wants to look in the cave. GUESS WHAT What does Ali Baba do in the next chapter? Tick one box. a Heis afraid of the thieves, so he doesn't go into the cave. ] b He visits the cave and finds treasure in it. He takes some home. [] ¢ He goes into the cave, but some thieves are in it. They kill him. [_] d_ He runs home and tells Kasim. Kasim goes into the cave first. (]Chapter 2 After the thieves leave, Ali Baba goes y to the rocks. ‘Open Sesame!’ he The door opens, and he walksHe takes some gold coins and leaves. ‘Close Sesame!’ r) he says. The cave door L \ closes behind him. L, Back home, Ali Baba tells everything to his wife and son, Morad. ‘Look at these coin: e rich!’ he cries. ‘How rich?’ his wife asks. She runs to Kasim’s house. ‘Can I borrow your scales? I want to weigh something,’ she tells Kasim’s wife. borrow to take for a short time weigh to see how heavy or light thing is scales‘Of course,’ Kasim’s wife smile: / ‘But what are you weighing: Kasim’s wife thinks, ‘That's ‘Oh, nothing important,’ Ali not true!’ She quickly puts Baba’s wife answers her. some wax on the scales. Later, Ali Baba’s wife takes back the scales. Kasim’s wife finds a gold coin on the wax. ‘They're weighing gold!’ she thinks. ‘They're richer than us!’ wax people make can She tells Kasim. ‘My brother's a poor woodcutter, “How can he have lots of gold? I must learn more.’READING CHECK Match the first and second parts of the sentences. a b c d e f 9g h Ali Baba stands in front of He says, ‘Open mii = In the cave, he sees He takes some gold coins to Ai Baba’s wife borrows On the scales, Kasim’s wife puts Later, Kasim’s wife finds a gold coin Kasims wife goes and speaks to Kasim brother is poor because he's wor auawn a Kasim wants to learn more about 10 GUESS WHAT What happens to Kasim in the next chapter? Tick the boxes. zrerean cD He goes to Ali Baba's house. He learns about the cave from Ali Baba’s wife. He goes to the cave with lots of friends. He remembers to say, Open Sesame’ and goes in. He doesn’t find any treasure in the cave. He forgets to say, ‘Open Sesame’ and can't leave. The thieves find him in the cave. He kills all of the thieves in the cave. his wife. some rocks. Kasim. some wax. lots of treasure. ‘on the wax, a woodcutter, AN Baba’s gold the cave door. some scales. 1In00¢# Oo Yes O oO O O O oO O OChapter 3 At Ali Baba’s house, a young Kasim asks woman opens the door to brother, Kasim. She’s Morgiana, Ali this gold coin from?’ Baba’s new servant. Ali Baba explains. ‘It's my treasure now!’ he cries. The cave door closes behind him. who works for‘Open Salt!’ he says when he wants to leave. But the cave door doesn't open. ‘Cut his body into four pieces!’ Arshad, more people know about our cave? This dead body can scare ll me now!’ he them, s ! at can I do?10 So Morgiana blindfolds Baba brings him to Ali Baba’s house. ‘Kasim’s very ill, tell everybody,’ Morgiana says. ‘The cobbler, Baba Mustafa, can come and sew up Kasim’s body. Then we can bury it.’ After that, the family buries Kasim. ‘Now the thieves can't find me,’ Ali Baba thinks happily. ‘Or can they?” He sews up Kasim’s body. Then Morgiana blindfolds him and takes him back home. makes shoes bury to put a dead body under cobbler @ person the ground of cloth or other sew up to join piec: things togetherREADING CHECK Put the sentences in order. Number them 1-10, a [_Ikasim forgets to say, ‘Open Sesame!’He can't leave, b The thieves find Kasim in the cave, and kill him. Ali Baba tells Kasim all about the treasure. . d_[_]kasim goes to the cave and says, ‘Open Sesame!’ e [_]Baba Mustafa sews up the dead body. £ [_Tkasim’s family bury his body 2 9 The thieves cut Kasim's dead body into four pieces. h_[_JAliBaba goes to the cave, and finds Kasim’s body, i Kasim is excited when he first sees the treasure. j Ali Baba takes Kasim’s dead body home. GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Tick one of the boxes. One of the thieves ... = oe a (... finds Ali Baba near the cave, and (J... finds Ali Baba in the cave, and leaves kills him him there. c¢ (1... goes to the cobbler's shop. Baba d (1... goes to the cobbler’s shop. Baba Mustafa takes him to Ali Baba’s house. Mustafa doesn't talk about his visit to Ali Baba's house.Chapter 4 e and has the body!’ Arshad, their chief, says. ‘We must find him at once.” 0 into town,’ Arshad tells Najid, one | of the thieves. ‘Perhaps you can learn | something about the dead man there.’ lIn town, Najid visits the cobbler’s shop. Baba Mustafa is speaking to a friend. ‘... So she puts a blindfold on me, and we go to a house. AndI sew up a dead body in four pieces there,’ he says. Najid gives two gold coins to the cobbler. ‘Take me to the dead man’s house,’ he says. clever quick-thinking step when you bring your foot up and put it down to walk Baba Mustafa is clever. He closes his eyes and remembers his steps. In the end, they arrive at Ali Baba’s house.V Soon after that, puts a white mark on the do Morgiana comes out. ‘I must tell Arshad about this,’ he She sees the mark on inks, and he | Baba Mustafa Ali Baba’s door. ‘Hmm. Somebody wants to mark our house,’ she thinks. ‘Perhaps it’s the thieves. What shall I do?READING CHECK Choose the correct words to complete these sentences. The next day, the thieves find (GanttfindKasim's body, Najid goes to Baba Mustafa’s shop / house. Baba Mustafa is talking to his brother / friend, He speaks about a dead body in four pieces / treasure cave Najid gives two / four gold coins to Baba Mustafa. Baba Mustafa closes his mouth-/eyes. Then he takes Najid to Ali Baba’s / Kasim’ house. Najid puts a red -white mark on the front door ‘Morgiana / Ali Baba’s wife sees the mark on the door. ‘What shail. do?" Who can help us?’she thinks. GUESS WHAT What does Morgiana do in the next chapter? Read the sentences and write yes or no. a She marks all the front doors in Ali Baba She goes to the cobbler’ shop, and gives street, and Arshad car't find the house. lots of money to Baba Mustafa. He doesn't help the thieves again ¢ She tells Ali Baba about the mark on his d She goes to the treasure cave and talks front door. to the thieves there.Chapter 5 PPE} Morgiana mar! its the shop, and giv hree gold coins to Baba Mustafa.The cobbler takes him to Ali Baba’s house. Arshad looks carefully at it. He doesn’t mark it. Morgiana is watching through the window. Later, Arshad comes back in different clothes. He knocks on Ali Baba’s door. ‘I'm an oil merchant. I’m taking my oil to a town far away. Can I sleep here tonight?” he says. Ali Baba is a good man. ‘Of course,’ he answers. ‘Leave your oil jars behind my house and come in.’ jar_ something that you can put things in, for example, a jar of oil clothes knock to a noise oil you cook things in thisArshad leaves the forty jars behind the house. One jar has oil in, but there are thieves in thirty-nine of the jars. ‘When I knock on the jars,’ Arshad tells his men quietly, ‘come out and kill Ali Baba!’ Then he goes into the house. Later, Morgiana visits the jars. She needs oil for her lamp. ‘Is it time?’ the thieves ask. ‘No. Wait!’ she answers. She puts hot oil in the jars, and the thieves die suddenly. lamp a thing that helps you to see in the dark When Arshad comes and knocks on the jars, nobody answers him. ‘Hey, my men are all dead!’ he cries. He leaves very quickly.READING CHECK Correct ten more mistakes in the story. doors Morgiana marks all the windows in the street, and Arshad can’t find Ali Baba’s house. He goes to the merchant's shop, and gives two gold coins to Baba Mustafa. Baba Mustafa takes him to Ali Baba’s house, but Morgiana is watching through the door. Arshad comes back later. He is in the clothes of a salt merchant. He has fifty jars with him. He wants to stay at Ali Baba’s house. Ali Baba says, ‘Yes’ to this. So Arshad puts his jars in front of Ali Baba’s house. Later, Morgiana needs oil for her lamp. She learns something interesting. There are thieves in forty-nine of the jars! They want to come out and help Ali Baba! Morgiana puts some cold oil in the jars, and the thieves die. Arshad finds his dead men in the jars, and he slowly leaves Ali Baba’s house. GUESS WHAT What happens in the next chapter? Tick two boxes to finish each sentence. a Arshad 1 C)never visits Ali Baba again 2 Cicomes back and kills Ali Baba 3 Clcomes back, but can't kill Ali Baba 4 ()meets Morgiana. b Morgiana 1 C1knows Arshad when he visits Ali Baba's house. 2 Litells Arshad, Go away and never come back!’ 3 Dikills Arshad. 4 Dis Ali Baba’s new wife in the end.Chapter 6 Some weeks later, Arshad comes back to town. Now he’s wearing the clothes of a rich gold mer shop. on, Morad, has old shop across the street. Arshad and ‘oon friends. ‘Father, can my new friend come for dinner?’ Morad Ali Baba one day. ‘Of course,’ Ali BabaAli Baba doesn’t recognize Arshad when he comes to the house for dinner. But when clever Morgiana brings the dinner, she recognizes him at once. After dinner, Morgiana dances for them. Suddenly Arshad attacks Ali Baba with a knife. recogni: know whi neoneandio attack to begin fighting knife a sharp thing that you use to dance to mo body and feet cut something to music 2Morgiana quickly attacks Arshad, and she kills him. After that, she explains everything. ‘Morgiana, you're the cleverest servant in all Persia!’ Ali Baba says. ‘You must marry Morad, and have some treasure, too!’ ‘Thank you, Father!’ Morad and Morgiana say. house in the street. In time, they have many children, and they live there very happily for many years. marry to make someone your husband or wife 22READING CHECK Choose the correct pictures. a... opens a new shop in the town b Arshad and .... are soon friends € ... recognizes Arshad at dinner d_ Arshad wants to kill € Ali Baba is happy when Morgiana kills GUESS WHAT What does Ali Baba do after the story ends? Tick the boxes and add your own ideas. marries Morgiana, a [JHe stays a woodcutter, and works in the forest again. b [JHe stops working in the forest, and stays at home. ¢ [JHe never visits the treasure cave again. d [He often goes to the cave because all the treasure is there. e [JHe gives most of his money to poor people. f [Je gives a lot of his money to Morad and Morgiana. g []He doesn't go out much because he's afraid of thieves. hO id. 2324 Natural products 1 Read about gold. Complete the table. LU, Gold comes from many different countries in the world. A lot of gold comes from South Africa, but China is now a big gold producer. The United States, Australia and Russia produce gold, too. Most gold comes from far under the ground. Some gold in South Africa comes from 3,585 metres down! There is a lot of gold in sea water, too, but people can't easily take gold out of the sea. You can do lots of different things with gold. You can make jewellery with it, and expensive watches. Some people have gold teeth, too. There is some gold in most TVs, home computers, and mobile phones. Of course, there isn’t very much. So don’t open your TV and look for it. Gold is very expensive. One kilogram of gold is about 50,000 dollars! What is the product? Gold Which countries produce it? Where does the product come from? What do people do with it? How expensive is it?2 Read the notes in the table and complete the text. What is the product? Vegetable oil Which countries produce it? Mostly Indonesia and Malaysia, the United States, China, and Argentina Where does the product From the fruit of the oil palm tree, come from? from the soya bean plant Make soap, perfume, and paint. Cook. Make biofuel’ from it and use this in cars What do people do with it? How expensive is it? Two dollars a litre comes from different hot countries in the world. produce most of the world’s vegetable oil. But. pand se. are vegetable oil producers, too. Vegetable oil comes from many different plants. Most vegetable oil is palm oil. It comes from the..................of the oil palm tree. Soya bean oil is an important vegetable oil, too. It comes from the seed of the.................. plant. People do different things with vegetable oil. They make ..........++s1s++9 yand ...scccssscssss-With it, And of course, people can with it at home, too. In some countries, people make “.................’ from vegetable oil. They use this in their................... In Brazil, lots of drivers do this. Vegetable oil is good because it isn’t very expensive. People usually pay about a litre for it. 3 Choose a natural product and write about it. copper cottondk (144 Describing a shop The correct order of adjectives before a noun is: => 068 @e 1 Write the words in the correct order to make sentences. a nice /oil /new / gold / lamps nice, new, .gold. oil Lannps an / Egyptian / expensive / old / picture o o Chinese / jars / green / tall beautiful / Syrian / big / chair/a a blue / Venetian / bottles / little f interesting / long /an / knife / African ted / Turkish / wonderful / shoes © fat / cat / Persian / a / white > 2 Look at the picture. Complete the text on page 27 with the words from Activity 1.There are lots of different things in Morad’s shop. At the front on the left, you can see some wanderful,.red,. Turkish shoes... and near them there are some . - Behind these, there's on the wall, and there's next to that. At the back of the en onthe ee you can see... . . Next to this, there's a tall, thin table with aetna onit.In front of these on there are lots of .. a Next to these, there are two . Morad’s is sitting in front of them. w What is your favourite shop? eRe. d asports shop e a toy shop f acorner shop 4 What is in your favourite shop? Make a list of things. 5 Drawa picture of your favourite shop, Write a description of it. 2728 N WORD WORK 1 These words don’t match the pictures. Correct them. a b c d \ ee) ty és woodeetter forest rocks wax merchant. e f h Asay is 4 P thief cave gold coins scales i ? chief merchant wife treasure Complete the sentences with words from Chapters 1 and 2. a This bread is nice! ‘Yes. They make it with... S@sSAme€... / b Ali Baba hasn't got much money. He very. © (CaN... eeescsees-s...your pen?” ‘Yes, but give it back to me later! d_ Mrs Green is Mr Green's He’ an important man. He’ the. «1.1... 0f the forest people f ‘Canyou eccscsse.ety bag for me?! ‘Yes. It’s twenty kilograms! g_ That singer is very............2..... . She lives in an expensive house. h There's lots of old Spanish ‘ under the sea there, they say.N WORD WORK2 1 Find words from Chapters 3 and 4 and match them with the pictures. LB b bocbrel a vtasnre Tacse e iollnddfo f wse pu Complete each sentence with a word from the box in the correct form. bury cut explain mark piece step b Ourdogoften....... c d Ohno! There are e f Your house is no more than thirty.....St@p.s..... from my front door. ‘Vean'te Can you .. I'm .... things under the trees in our garden. at all that apple! ‘OK. But do you want a.................-Of it?” on this shirt. They're a different colour. . this word to me? | don’t understand it. .. this sandwich into two pieces - one for you and one for me. 2930 WORD WORK 3 1 Find words from Chapters 5 and 6 to match the pictures. N Complete the sentences with words from Chapters 5 and 6. a Our dogs are very good. They nevera + + a c K people. b ‘Canyou_ a _ _ewith me?’ ‘No. Sorry. I'm tired! ¢ How can we make dinner? We haven't got any _ i _. d ‘Doyou_ e _ 0 _ _ i _e that man over there?’ ‘Yes. He's that tennis player from Spain’ e ‘Do you want to_ a _ _yme?' ‘Yes,| do. | want to be your wife!Beenn stl GRAMMAR CHECK gL BY Everybody, everything, nobody, nothing, somebody, and something We use everybody and everything to talk about ‘all the people’ and all the things! ‘Kasimts il elle We use nobody and nothing to talk about'no person or people’ or‘no thing or things. iy recognizes Arshad in bis new clothes. ‘What are you weighing?" ‘Nothing important; she says We use somebody and something to talk about an unknown person or thing. ‘Ali Baba explains everything. iy knows about our cave!" ‘She wants to weigh something important; thinks Kasims wife Choose the correct word to complete the sentences. ‘a When the story begins, Ali Baba is a very poor man. He has something b_ Nobody / Everybody sees Ali Baba behind the tree ‘© Kasiin wants to take everything / nothing from the cave. Ali Baba’ son is very nice, Everybody / Somebody likes him. There's everything / something on the wax in my scales, Kasim™s wife thinks. 's it a gold coin? £ Morgiana hears somebody / nobody in one of the big jars. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Eueeybody something nobody somebody nothing everything a Everybody knows the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. b The thieves have a big treasure cave, and they pUt.......ssssssssssssesesn there € SeRieye . knows about the cave. But soon Ali Baba learns about it. Kasim says, ‘Open Salt! but. happens. €@ The cobbler tells. .........1......111..1..about the dead body in four pieces. f Atdinner, Arshad takes . a ceserseeeesin his hand, It’s a knife!aa CU Led ‘UNIVERSITY PRESS www.oup.com/elt Ali Baba finds a thieves’ treasure cave, and he is suddenly rich, Then his brother Kasim visits the cave, and things go wrong. The forty thieves find Kasim there, kill him, and cut him into four pieces. What can Ali Baba do? He wants to bury his brother quietly. But how can he? Morgiana, his servant-girl, has the answer. But what can she do when the thieves find Ali Baba and want to kill him, too? Illustrated by Trystan Mitchell _j This book is supported by a MultiROM, containing a complete \*/ dramatized audio recording of the story plus interactive activities. Series Editors: Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter Word count 1,099 Bi a1) APPROACH TO itl cay ENGLISH Quick Starters are shorter than Starters SBN 978-0-19-424934-8 ist ca: 9 "7801949249348