内容正文:
Do You Know When Basketball Was Invented?
Unit 6
Section B (2a-2e)
Do you watch basketball games?
Do you like playing basketball?
How much do you know about
this sports?
Discuss the sport with your partner and share your ideas with them.
2a
How much do you know about basketball?
famous players
organizations
basketball court
inventor
development
team spirit
famous
players
National Basketball Association
China Basketball Association
basketball
a hard floor
basket 篮筐
backboard 篮板
net 篮网
The popularity of basketball today
The introduction and development
of basketball
How basketball was invented
Read the passage quickly and match each paragraph with its main idea.
The first sentence in each paragraph can help you.
2b
Read Paragraph 1 and find out the numbers and years.
LOGO
the development of basketball
Dec 21,1891
100 million
200
100
1936
1.It has a history of over_____ years.
2.It is played by more than__________people
in over _______ countries.
3.The first basketball game was on____________.
4.In in Berlin, basketball became an event
at the Olympics for the first time.
Why do so many people enjoy playing basketball ?
For fun and exercise
It is played by over 100 million
people in over 200 countries
for fun and exercise.
LOGO
1. Who invented basketball?
2. Why did he invent it?
3. How is it played?
Read Para.2 and answer the questions.
A Canadian doctor called James Naismith.
Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor named James Naismith, who was born in 1861. When he was a college teacher, he was asked to think of a game that could be played in the winter. Dr. Naismith created a game to be played inside on a hard floor. Dr. Naismith divided the men in his class into two teams and taught them to play his new game. Players on the same team must work together to get the ball in the other team’s basket. At the same time ,they need to stop the competing team from getting the ball into their own basket.
Because he was as