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1 - Unit 2 Part 1 Language Skills Development HYPERLINK /OldElearning/student/findsubject.aspx?UnitTreeID=859 1. Starter Look at the following pictures. Think over these questions. What ways of getting rich do these pictures suggest? Reference answer：?The four pictures represent four different ways of getting rich. The first picture suggests that one can get rich quick by buying stocks. The second picture shows that people can become rich through inheritance of fortunes, either of their own parents, or of some wealthy persons. The third picture indicates that marriage could be a passport to the kingdom of wealth. That is to say, a man or a woman could be a rich person if his or her spouse is rich. The fourth picture tells people that lotteries make millionaires. 2. Which do you think is the quickest way to get rich? Reference answer：?All these four methods of getting rich quick could turn a penniless guy into a millionaire overnight, but it seems to me that winning a lottery is the quickest way of making people rich. Just pay a dollar or two and you could become a rich person overnight! But on the other hand, such an opportunity is very rare. B. Listen to the story Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Part 1) and answer the following questions. 1. What were the magic words used to open and close the cave? ?They were Open, Sesame! and Shut, Sesame!. 2. What did Ali Baba find in the cave? He found rich silks and carpets, gold and silver ware, and great bags of gold. 3. What did Ali Baba take from the cave? ?Many of the bags of gold. Tapescript: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves In a town in Persia there lived a poor woodcutter named Ali Baba. One day, Ali Baba was working deep in the forest. Suddenly he heard the noise of many horses. He tied up his two mules behind some high rocks. Then he climbed into a tall tree to hide. From up high in the tree, Ali Baba saw forty men on forty horses. Each man wore a saber and a dagger in his belt. They looked very fierce. Ali Ba