江苏省如皋市白蒲镇初级中学九年级英语上册Unit 4 growing up reading 1.ppt

* The Shortest player in the NBA Reading Are you good at it? Do you like playing basketball? How often do you play basketball? Who is your favourite basketball player? Kobe Bryant Yao Ming Spud Webb Height: 198cm Height: 226cm Height: 170cm What makes a person a wonderful basketball player? Height? Skill? Which is more important to a basketball player? Why? Let’s read the article — The shortest player in the NBA 1 stand 2 national 3 succeed 4 scholarship 5 prove 6 matter a achieve something that you have been trying to do b use facts to show that something is true c a place where people stand sit to watch sports d be important e of a whole country f money given to somebody that he or she continue study Match the words on the left with the meanings on the right. a Spud Webb named Player of the Year b Spud got a scholarship from a university c Spud scored 20 points in his first game d Spud became an NBA player in 1985 e small Spud had a big dream Paragraph 1 _________ Paragraph 2 _________ Paragraph 3 _________ Paragraph 4 _________ Paragraph 5 _________ e c a b d There are some important information on Spud Webb’s basketball career. Read the article and write the correct letters in the blanks. B2 1. Spud wanted to play in the NBA when he was a boy. 2. With his wonderful performance, Spud was named Player of the Year in Texas more than once. 3. Spud didn’t leave another basketball league to the NBA until 1985. 4. Spud’s experience taught us that we can succeed as long as we never give up. He led his team to ___________. He got _________ from North Carolina State University. ___________ university invited him. He played at ________. College/ University He became _______of the team. In his last year, he was named ___________ in Texas. He got the coach to ___________. He had to _______ ______because of his height. Senior High He got the ______and scored _________ in his first game. He became the ______of