Listening-1. Warming-up,Answer the questions about basketball. Keys: 1. a 2. a 3. b 4. b,Listening-2.While-listening,Listen to Part 1 and decide which two people are speaking and when. Keys: B-Two commentators speaking at the beginning of a game.,Listen to Part 2 and check the words you hear.,Listen to part 2 and get the answers to activity 3. Keys to activity 3,amazing disappointed disappointing exciting exhausted,Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 again and check the true statements: 1, 2, 5 T 3, 4, 6 F,Listening-3. Post-listening,Keys to activity 5 1. Yao Ming has played extremely well. 2. The Chicago Bulls team used Jordan too much, and when he didnt play or played badly the whole team wasnt good. 3. Both teams played very hard for the whole match and they used their playing abilities(passing, shooting, etc) very well.,4. At the start of the last quarter of the match the Rockets were 2 points ahead. 5. It was a very exciting match with both teams playing hard all the time.,Listening -4. Language focus (Part 1),1. Im your commentator for tonights game. Im here with Dan Watson, a local journalist whos been following 2. Im really looking forward to it. 3. are really hot at the moment. 4. rely too much on 5. expect too much from 6. Hes a terrific player.,Listening -4. Language focus (Part 2),1. they had a lot of stamina-they all ran and ran and RAN! 2. leading scorer with a magnificent 32 points 3. The Rockets led by two points going into the fourth quarter, and were 69-61 in the lead with just under 9 minutes to play. 4. scored a three-pointer to tie the game at 83-83, which meant overtime. 5. There were only two timeouts in the entire game.,Homework,Go to the library or surf the Internet to collect more information about the rules about basketball. Find more listening material to practise.,