​Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had only one pair of shoes. Even the mice in his house were hungry. One day, his wife said, “We have no food in the house.No rice. No potatoes. Go and collect leaves in the forest so that I can make a soup.”

       Ali was a lazy man. He looked for leaves for about ten minutesand then he climbed a tree to sleep because he was afraid of wolves. When hewoke up, he was surprised to see forty thieves on forty horses stopping infront of a big rock.

       “Open Sesame!” shouted the leader. A door in the rock opened.The thieves carried sacks full of gold into the cave.

       When they had finished, the leader shouted. “Close Sesame!”and the door closed. As soon as the thieves had disappeared Ali Baba jumpeddown from the tree, said, “Open Sesame” and went into the cave.

       There were shelves all around the walls. The shelves were fullof sacks of gold. Ali took a sack home with him.

       Unfortunately, one of the thieves saw Ali’s footprints on thesand. He followed them to Ali’s home. He took out his knife and made a sign onthe door.

       “Now I shallknow which house it is,” he said.

       He rode off to get the other thieves. But Ali had seen thethief. He and his wife took brooms and swept away the footprints. Then, he madesigns on every door at the street. When the forty thieves arrived they had theirknives between their teeth. But they couldn’t find either Ali or the gold. AndAli and his wife lived happily ever after.

Adapted from: Achmad Doddy, AhmadSugeng, Effendi, Developing English Competencies for Senior High School(SMA/MA) Grade XI of Language Programme, Jakarta, Pusat Perbukuan Depdiknas, 2008.

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