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G8U1 Topic 2 I’ll kick you the ball again.
1、 课前阅读
When was the first basketball game played?
In 1891, James Naismith, a P.E. teacher at a college in America, wanted to create a game so that students could play indoors on a rainy day. Naismith spent two weeks trying out ideas. On December 21, he made 13 rules for a new game. That day, his students played the first game of basketball.
Sports fans today might not recognize(认识) the game Naismith invented. For one thing, it was played with a soccer ball. To move the ball up the court, players (who were all men) had to pass it from the place where they caught it. The baskets Naismith created didn’t have holes in the bottom(底部). So when a player scored, someone had to climb up to take off the ball.
The first women’s basketball game was played in 1892, at Smith College in America. A teacher named Senda Berenson taught basketball. She changed some of the rules. Players were asked to stay in certain areas of the court and weren’t al