Lesson 18, страница 44 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

From the History of Sports - страница 44.

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LESSON 18

Read the text and say what new information you have got about basketball and lawn tennis.

From the History of Sports

(After E. Pozdeeva)

NEW WORDS

a basket ['ba:skit]	— корзина
a gymnasium [dʒim'neiziəm]	— гимнастический зал
an indoor ['indɔ:] game	— игра, в которую играют в помещении
a court [kɔ:t]	— корт
Persia ['pз:∫ə]	— Персия
a major ['meidʒə]	— майор

BASKETBALL

Basketball as a game appeared at the end of the nineteenth cen- tury. It was introduced by James Naismith, a college coach during the winter of 1891–1892. He wanted to train his students between the end of the football season and the begin- ning of the baseball season. He placed fruit baskets on the walls at the opposite ends of the gymnasium and organized nine-men team who played with a ball used for foot- ball. Each team tried to throw the ball into the other team's basket and at the same time tried to keep that team from throwing the ball into their basket. The students had a lot of exercise, they moved a lot about the gym- nasium, jumped and ran. They liked the game and called it basketball.

Nowadays the game itself is the same, but there are many changes in it. For example, now there are five players in a team. This game is very popular in Europe, where it was brought during World War I. It is interest- ing that at first basketball was an indoor game, and in America it is still played indoors. But almost in all other countries it is an outdoor game.

LAWN TENNIS

Lawn tennis is not an old game, it is rather new. But it is based upon the game which is really very old — court tennis. Court tennis came to Europe from Egypt or Persia about 2500 years ago.

Major Walter Wingfield thought that people could play court tennis outdoors on lawns. In December 1837 he introduced this new game. Soon it became very popular and people called it lawn tennis.

1. Complete the sentences using the information from the text.

1) Basketball as a game appeared ... .

2) It was introduced by ... .

3) Basketball was introduced in ... .

4) At first basketball was a game played by teams consisting of ... .

5) Now there are only ... in a team.

6) Basketball is an indoor game in ... .

7) Lawn tennis is not ... .

8) Lawn tennis is based on ... .

9) Court tennis came to Europe from ... .

10) Lawn tennis was introduced as a new game in ... .

2. Say all you can about basketball and lawn tennis.

Решение.