内容正文:
Unit 4 Growing up
Reading I
Never give up
NBA(National Basketball Association)
灌篮大赛
全国锦标赛
北美的职业篮球组织
Atlanta Hawks
Do the matches
national championship
the Slam Dunk Contest
亚特兰大老鹰队
How much do you know about basketball?
What makes a good professional basketball player?
A.a strong mind
B.good skills
C.body height
Do a survey
Which one is the most important?
View and predict
1.Who is Spud Webb?
2.What is he good at?
A retired American NBA player.
Jumping high.
Skim the passage and answer
1.How does the writer organize the ideas? Can you find any key words?
2.What type is this article?
born
junior high
senior high
university
NBA
A.a news report
B. an argumentative essay (议论文)
C. a biography (传记)
Name: Spud Webb
Year of birth:
Place of birth:
Height:
Team:
Dream:
1963
Texas
170 cm
Atlanta Hawks
To play in the NBA
The shortest player in the NBA
Skim again and help make a profile of Spud Webb
1.What difficulty did he meet?
2.How did he deal with it?
3.What achievement did he get?
He was refused at first when he tried for the school team.
He did not lose heart and finally got a chance to play in his first game.
He scored 20 points in his first game and became the star of the team.
Read the second paragraph and answer
junior high
Further thinking
1.If you were Spud Webb,you wanted to join the school team,but failed.What would you do?
2.What do you think makes him try again and again?
3.What can you learn from Spud Webb?
His love of basketball.
1.What difficulty did he meet?
2.How did he deal with it?
3.What achievement did he get?
He had to sit in the strands because of his height.
He practised even harder and got the coach to change his mind.
He became leader of the team and was named Player of the Year in Texas in his last year of senior high.
Read the third paragraph and answer
senior high
Further thinking
1.If you were Spud Webb,your coach made you sit in the strand instead of playing on