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Topic 1 Bowling
1.To Engage
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2. To Explore
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3. To Explain
Bowling is a target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls
a ball toward pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). The
term bowling usually refers to ten-pin bowling, though in the United
Kingdom and Commonwealth countries bowling could also refer to lawn bowls.
In pin bowling, the goal is to knock over pins on a long playing surface known as a lane.
A strike is achieved when all the pins are knocked down on the first roll, and a spare is achieved
if all the pins are knocked over on a second roll.
Lanes have a wood or synthetic surface onto which protective lubricating oil is applied in
different specified oil patterns that vary ball path trajectories and characteristics. Common types
of pin bowling include ten-pin, candlepin, duckpin, nine-pin, five-pin and kegel. The historical
game skittles is the forerunner of modern pin bowling.
In target bowling, the aim is usually to get the ball as close to a mark as possible. The
surface in target bowling may be grass, gravel, or synthetic. [1] Lawn bowls, bocce, carpet
bowls, pétanque, and boules may have both indoor and outdoor varieties.
Bowling is played by 100 million people in more than 90 countries (including 70 million
in the United States alone), and is the subject of video games.
4. To Elaborate
History of Bowling
Articles found in the tomb of an Egyptian child buried in about 3200 BC included nine
pieces of stone, to be set up as pins, at which a stone “ball” was rolled, the ball having first to roll
through an archway made of three pieces of marble. The modern sport of bowling at pins
probably originated in ancient Germany, not as a sport but as a religious ceremony. As early as
the 3rd or 4th century AD, in rites held in the cloisters of churches, parishioners may have placed
their ever-present club, or Kegel (the implement most Germans carried for sport and, certainly,
self-protection), at one end of a runway resembling a modern bowling lane. The Kegel was said
to represent the Heide (“heathen”). A stone was rolled at the Heide, and those successfully
toppling it were believed to have cleansed themselves of sin. Although the peasants’ club
evolved into pins, the association remained, and even today bowlers are often called keglers.
The passage of time brought an increase in the size of the stone rolled at pins, and
eventually the ball came to be made of wood. Many variations of the game developed, some
played with three pins, others with as many as 17. A biographer of the 16th-century cleric Martin
Luther has written that Luther built a bowling lane for his children which he occasionally visited,
sometimes throwing the first ball.
Among other significant historical references to bowling are an account of a great feast
given the citizenry of Frankfurt in 1463, at which the venison dinner was followed by bowling;
notations from 1325 in which “gambling on bowling” in Berlin and Cologne was limited to five
shillings; and the award of an ox to the winner of a bowling competition in 1518, given by the
city of Breslau (now Wrocław, Pol.).
In the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, the game spread into the Low Countries and also
into Austria and Switzerland. The playing surfaces were usually cinders or clay, specially treated
and sun-baked to a hardness resembling concrete. The roofing over of lanes, first done
in London for lawn bowls around 1455, was the beginning of bowling as an all-weather, around-
the-clock game. When the lanes were covered or put into sheds (called Kegelbahns in Germany
and Austria and usually attached to village taverns or guest houses), the playing surfaces ranged
from wood or hardened clay to, in later years, asphalt.
Strike. When all pins are knocked down with one ball. You get 10 points for these pins, plus the
points of the next two balls thrown.
Spare. All 10 pins are knocked down with 2 consecutive balls. You get 10 points for this plus
the points from the pins that your next bowl knocks down.
Frame. One turn - you get two chances to knock down the pins within one frame.
Foul Line. The is the black line at the start of the lane.
Foul. You will receive a foul if you step over the foul line.
5. To Evaluate
Task 1: 1. What is bowling?
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5. If you will play bowling, what benefits can you get from this sports?
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