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Basketball**
Exercise:
1. Fill in the gap text.
Surf the Internet Reading 2. Compare the players of two basketball teams. Write a text.
Write an e-mail 3. Write a text about a basketball player.
4. Write an e-mail.
Solve the exercise in 45 minutes. 645 min

Are you interested in basketball??? I’m sure, you are!!! I have some interesting news for you.
Read the gap text.

1. Now it’s your turn to fill the gaps with 10 of the following words or phrases:
baskets, lazy, contrast, active, why, connection, Physical Education, because, caught,
during, became, by, fetched, a kind of, from, goals, while

The first rules, court and game

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born __1__ professor who worked at
Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, was trying to keep his gym class __2__
on a rainy day. He looked for an indoor game to keep his students moving at good levels of
fitness __3__ the long New England winters. He wanted __4__ ball sport that was less
dangerous. After rejecting other ideas as too rough, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach
basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) balcony. In __5__ with modern basketball nets, this peach
basket still had its bottom. So the balls had to be __6__ manually after each "basket" or point
scored. The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops
with backboards. A soccer ball was used to shoot __7__. Whenever a person got the ball in the
basket, his team would gain a point. The team with the most points won the game.
Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered __8__ his granddaughter in early 2006, show that
he was nervous about the new game he had invented, __9__ it had similar rules as the children's
game called "Duck on a Rock". That’s why he called his new game "Basket Ball".
The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine
players. By 1897–1898 teams of five __10__ standard.
(adapted from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball)
Are you interested in earning lots of money? Here you can see players who became rich.
Have a closer look at the following two tables and compare the average salaries of the two teams.

2. Compare the players of two basketball teams. Write a text of at least 8 sentences.
Have a closer look at the following two tables and compare the average salaries of the two
teams. Writeat least 8 sentences.
You can use the following phrases:
the richest one, earn less than,
as much as, more than,
nearly as much as, the most popular,
more famous/successful than
....( own ideas are allowed)

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 Dallas Mavericks Roster - 2009-10
NO. NAME POS AGE HT WT COLLEGE 2009 - 2010 SALARY
4 Caron Butler SF 30 6-7 228 Connecticut $9,780,970
25 Erick Dampier C 34 6-11 265 Mississippi State $12,115,500
2 Jason Kidd PG 37 6-4 210 Team Roster $8,100,000
41 Dirk Nowitzki PF 31 7-0 245   $19,795,714
31 Jason Terry SG 32 6-2 180 Arizona $9,075,000
Chicago Bulls Roster - 2009-10

NO. NAME POS AGE HT WT COLLEGE SALARY

9 Luol Deng SF 24 6-9 220 Duke $10,365,000
12 Kirk Hinrich G 29 6-3 190 Kansas $9,500,000
52 Brad Miller C 34 7-0 261 Purdue $12,250,000
1 Derrick Rose PG 21 6-3 190 Memphis $5,184,480
21 Hakim Warrick PF 27 6-9 219 Syracuse $3,000,000

3. Write a short text of about 5 sentences.

What information did you get on him?

4. Write an e-mail.

THIS IS A SPECIAL CHANCE FOR YOU !!!

Try to contact Mr Nowitzki.
Write an e-mail to the following address.

info@dirk-nowitzki.stiftung.org

Write him that you are a fan and that you would be very pleased about an autograph.
(If you get an answer, you will get mark 1.)

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Basketball** LÖSUNG
Exercise:
1. Fill in the gap text.
Surf the Internet Reading 2. Compare the players of two basketball teams. Write a text.
Write an e-mail 3. Write a text about a basketball player.
4. Write an e-mail.

Are you interested in basketball??? I’m sure, you are!!! I have some interesting news for you.

1. Read the gap text. Fill the gaps with the following 10 words or phrases:

The first rules, court and game

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born Physical Education professor who
worked at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, was trying to keep his gym
class active on a rainy day. He looked for an indoor game to keep his students moving at good
levels of fitness during the long New England winters. He wanted a kind of ball sport that was
less dangerous. After rejecting other ideas as too rough, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a
peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) balcony. In contrasts with modern basketball nets, this
peach basket still had its bottom. So the balls had to be fetched manually after each "basket"
or point scored. The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by
metal hoops with backboards. A soccer ball was used to shoot baskets. Whenever a person got
the ball in the basket, his team would gain a point. The team with the most points won the game.
Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, show that he
was nervous about the new game he had invented, because it had similar rules as the children's
game called "Duck on a Rock". That’s why he called his new game "Basket Ball".
The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine
players. By 1897–1898 teams of five became standard.
(adapted from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball)
Are you interested in earning lots of money? Here you can see players who became rich.
Have a closer look at the following two tables and compare the average salaries of the two teams.

2. Compare the players of two basketball teams. Write a text.

- individual solutions

3. Write a short text of about 5 sentences.

What information did you get on him?

He is Dirk Nowitzki. He plays for the Dallas Mavericks. He is 31 years old.

Nowitzki is 7ft tall. He weighs 245 pounds. Nowitzki earns $19.79 million a
year.
……

4. Write an e-mail
- individual solution
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