Period 1 Reading - Basketball

Goals

· To read about the basketball players:

　　　　 Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain;

· To Learn to enjoy the titles

Procedures

Step 1: Warming up by learning Introduction

Please think about the following questions:

(1)Do you love team sports, such as football, basketball, volleyball?

(2)Can you name some basketball players, at home or abroad? Do you know what positions they play?

(3)What are the forwards doing---attacking or defending?

(4)What is the referee doing?

For reference

Michael Jordan guard, Wilt Chamberlain center, Yao Ming center

attacking

watching and controlling the game

1. Fill in the blank with proper words.

Let's look at the picture on page 1 and what do the words mean?

For reference

court---the playing area

hoop---the circular metal band which is attached to the backboard and holds the