Escrito Ingles - JULIO 2012

Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________________________________

1) READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

What is the most popular sport in the world? The correct answer is basketball because
the number of people who regularly play the game might be higher (at least 300
million).
Basketball was invented in the early 1890s by a Canadian, James Naismith,
working at a college in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. He
had the idea of two teams of players trying to throw a ball into a basket
that was above their heads.
The biggest international TV audiences in modern basketball are for games
in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in North America, a league of 30
teams (29 from the United States and one from Canada), including famous names
such as the Chicago Bulls, Boston Celtics, and Los Angeles Lakers. Most of the
players in the NBA are American, but there are also some foreign stars such as Yao
Ming from China and Dirk Nowitzki from Germany.

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When was Basketball invented?

Where was invented?
Who invented Basketball?
How many teams does the NBA have?
Do you use a ball when playing Basketball?

2) READ THE TEXT AGAIN. FIND IN THE TEXT.

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2 numbers: ____________
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A nationality : ____________
A city: ____________
2 countries: _____________
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An acronym: ___________
2 teams: ____________
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3) WRITE THE NAMES OF THESE SPORTS. THERE IS ONE EXTRA
WORD!
FOOTBALL BASKETBALL TENNIS RUGBY CYCLING VOLLEYBALL

4) COLOUR THE OLYMPIC FLAG AND WRITE THE CORRESPONDING

CONTINENTS.

5) WRITE A PARAGRAPH TO ONE ATHLETE ABOUT YOU.

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