高中英语共同成长(Module1Basketball)教学素材外研版选修7

1、共同成长见仁见智The Yao Ming DynastyIn the past five years, US basketball * s Huston Rockets have dreamed of entering the NBA playoffs. Their dream came true this year. With them, Yao Ming, a player from China, has created his own dynasty. Since he started his NBA career in (2020, Yao has made achievements

2、unmatched by many other players and has become an irreplaceable mainstay for the Rockets. For Yao himself, the NBA experience has lasted more than 80 games. He has learned much and changed much. Having gone from a freshman to a sophomore in the NBA, he will show better next season.“We need him in th

3、e best state, " Rockets coach Jeff Ban Gundy told reporters recently. "If not, we can hardly win the game. We find no one can fill his place well if Yao isn' t there. ”Yao Ming, the NBA giant, has made great achievements and quickly become one of the league' s dominant players. Whe

4、n it comes to Yao' s achievements, different people have different ideas.A student：I think he is very tall. I like watching him playing basketball on TV.A Huston fun：Yao Ming is the best center in the world. The best shooting center ever. He has surpassed Shaq.A journalist：For one reason or anot

5、her, most people have very high expectation for Yao Ming. I believe Yao Ming, while improving, is not going to have a career average 27 points per game as Shaq is having.My view:合作共款“Even when I，m old and grey, I won' t be able to play it, but I' 11 still love the game. ”Michael Jordan“I can

6、 accept failure, but I can' t accept not trying. ”一Michael Jordan"I' ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I' ve lost almost 300 games.26 times, I' ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I , ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I su

7、cceed. ”一Michael JordanuSome people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ”一Michael JordanuJust play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”一Michael JordanuOne thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of the

8、mselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships. ”一Michael Jordan“If you' re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I * ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don' t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don' t turn around and give up. Fi

9、gure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ”一Michael Jordan 【任务导入】 Michael Jordan sets a good example to some young students. As a student, we can learn something educative from what he said. What can we learn from his words? Let * s have a discussion according to the following step

10、s：First, divide the students into four to six groups;Second, let them have talks in their small groups;Third, share their opinions with each group;Finally, let the students find more quotes about Jordan, and write them down.读书做人A Slow StarterMichael Jordan was born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, Ne

11、w York, while his father was stationed there briefly on business. The fourth of five children, Michael has two brothers and two sisters. While he was still young, his family moved back to their hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina, where his father worked as a supervisor at a General Electric plan

12、t. Everyone in the Jordan family worked hard everyone, that is, except Michael. "I could not keep regular hours. It just wasn' t me, " Jordan told Gentleman' s Quarterly. Michael threw all of his energies into sports, playing baseball and basketball with the same intensity that his

13、 parents and siblings devoted to their work. He said that he began playing with his tongue sticking out because his father would stick his tongue out whenever concentrating on a task.Neither of Jordan , s parents were tall, nor were his brothers and sisters beyond average height. Michael himself see

14、med destined to be short, an unlikely candidate for the professional basketball career he dreamed about. In backyard games with his friends and brothers, he tried to compensate for his height by playing harder; thus was born his fierce desire to win, especially against the odds.As a freshman at Wilm

15、ington" s Laney High School, Jordan tried out for the varsity （大学）basketball team and was cut. The next year he was cut again soon after the season began, while his best friend, Leroy Smith, made the team. Jordan told Reader* s Digest that when he discovered he had been dropped from the varsity

16、 again, “I went through the day numb. After school, I hurried home, closed the door to my room and cried so hard. It was all I wanted to play on that team. " He added, "It' s probably good that it happened. It made me know what disappointment felt like. And I knew that I didn, t want t

17、hat feeling ever again. ”Between his sophomore and junior years of high school, Jordan added several inches to his height. Almost overnight he grew from five feet eleven inches to six feet three inches. By the time he was a senior he stood at six feet six. Needless to say, he finally earned his bert

18、h on the varsity squad andwith his burning ambitions in tow-he became one of the most widely-recruited high school athletes in the country. He accepted a full scholarship to the University of North Carolina. Everybody in Wilmington expected me to go to North Carolina, sit on the bench for four years, then go back to Wilmington and work at the local gas station, &q