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American Football
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Pre-reading Questions Background Knowledge Text Comprehension Questions Text Analysis
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The object of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the opposing team’s end zone. The ball can be advanced by carrying it (a running play) or by throwing it to a teammate (a passing play).
4. What do people usually think about American football? People usually think American football is brutal and dangerous.
5. In what way is soccer gaining in popularity on sports such as baseball? Soccer can draw crowds of over 70 thousand in cities where baseball attracts a mere 20 thousand spectators.
Points can be scored in a variety of ways, including carrying the ball over the goal line, catching a pass from beyond the goal line, tackling an opposing ball carrier in his own end zone, or kicking the ball through the goal posts on the opposing side.
baseball? 7. What have Americans done to make the soccer game more exciting? 8. What are some of the crazes that Americans are addicted to?
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Text Two Kinds of Football
American football, not to be confused with the football called soccer, is the American national sport. It developed from the British game of rugby and, although it is played in no other country in the world (except Canada), it excites tremendous enthusiasm. Intercollegiate games (games between universities) are great social occasions. More than 100 thousand mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, students and football fans from the general public, crowd into the huge, luxurious stadiums. During a recent college final in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, California, there were severe earthquake tremors, but nobody noticed!
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Two Kinds of Football
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Two Kinds of Football
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Rose Bowl
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2. Where else is American football played in the world other than in the United States? In Canada.
3. Cite an example to show Americans’ enthusiasm for American football.
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Background Knowledge
American football, known in the United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with intense physical play.
During a recent college final in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, California, there were severe earthquake tremors, but nobody noticed!
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Comprehension Questions
helmets (fitted with visors to protect their faces) are so skillfully
padded that there are few serious injuries. By comparison, the rugby
The winner is the team with the most points when time expires at the end of the last play.
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Background Knowledge
American football is also played outside the United States. National leagues exist in Japan, Mexico, and Europe. The National Football League ran a developmental league in Europe from 1991 to 1992 and then from 1995 to 2006. Canadian football, which is very similar to the American game, is widely played in Canada.
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l has a reputation for being a brutal and
dangerous game. This reputation is not really deserved. The players
hurl themselves at each other fiercely, but today their uniforms and
6. What have Americans done to make the soccer game more exciting?
They have changed some of the rules, including the offside rules to make the game more exciting.
Comprehension Questions
1. How do the players win points in American football? Players try to carry the ball over the opponents’ line, and then to earn more points by kicking the ball between the upright goal posts above the bar.
The method of scoring in American football is the same as in rugby. Players try to carry the ball over the opponents’ line, and then to earn more points by kicking the ball between the upright goal posts above the bar. But that is where the likeness between the two games ends.
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Comprehension Questions
7. What is another craze that Americans are addicted to? How do you know that?
Soccer is another craze that Americans are addicted to. They are employing famous fashion designers to design novel uniforms for the players. They have introduced a musical background to the games, and there is a big screen in the stadium which explains to spectators what is happening. Most important, they have hired, at enormous expense, famous coaches and players from Europe and South America.