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21.11.2020 14:27 •  Английский язык

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Basketball.
It was a rainy November day in 1891. An instructor at Springfield College in Massachusetts climbed up a ladder and nailed a fruit basket to the wall of the gymnasium. Then he climbed down the ladder, took a ball and threw it into the basket. The young man was very glad. Maybe, he has invented a new game with a ball.
A few minutes later eighteen students ran into the gym. The instructor put nine boys on the side and nine on the other side of the gym. He told them to throw the ball to each other or bounce it and, when they were near the wall where the basket was nailed, he told them to try and throw the ball into the basket.
The game started. And what a game it was!
Some time passed and the teacher stopped the game. He asked his students to listen to him:”There must be some rules in the game. Rule number 1: no one can run with the ball! You have to throw it or bounce it to someone else on your side. Rule number 2: if a boy pushed another player to get the ball, the game will stop. The man who was pushed would have a free throw at the basket. Nobody must try to catch the ball on its way to the basket.”
All students agreed that rules were good. When the game started again, there was less pushing, fewer men falling, and better passing of the ball from one man to another. A second basket was nailed to the wall at the other end of the gym.
The man who invented this game was James Naismith from Canada, and he was a college teacher.

Put “+” near the correct sentences. A
1. The game of basketball was invented in England.
2. Basketball was invented in November, 1891.
3. James Naismith was an instructor of basketball.
4. James Naismith was American.
5. The instructor explained the rules of basketball to his students.
6. First there was one basket in the game.
7. The students didn’t like the rules of the game.
8. The rules of playing basketball have been greatly changed since 1891.
9. Basketball is played only in the USA.
10. James Naismith invented basketball by chance.
11. There were 5 rules in this play.
12. All students agreed that rules were good.