Basketball is a team sports game where the goal is to throw the ball into the opponent’s basket (ring) and earn points. Each team consists of five players who must move around the court, pass and throw the ball, and defend their half of the court from attacking players. Basketball was invented in 1891 in the USA by coach James Naismith. The idea came about as a way to keep students busy during the winter. Quickly popularized, basketball became an Olympic sport and was loved by millions of fans around the world...

В статье представлен текст для подготовке к ОГЭ, рабочая тетрадь и вопросы для говорения. 1) прочитать текст, поработать со слова ( написать примеры употребления) Sports in Great Britain It is interesting how many of today’s sports games originated in Britain – football, rugby, tennis, boxing, rowing, and horse racing among them. Of course, horse racing was popular with the Greeks and Arabs long before the British began to put them into practice; and people had been playing football in one form or another for thousands of years all over the world. But it was the British who created special rules for these sports and sports games...