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O 8 Reading Before Reading What do you know about basketball? What do you know about the person in the picture? رابط الدرس www.ien.edu.sa A REAL GIANT G 1 In China, his nickname is “Little Giant." In the West, they call him the "Great Wall." Yao Ming is 7 feet 6 inches (2.29 meters) tall. He was born on September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China. His parents were both 5 tall. Their beds were extra long, and their clothes and shoes were in special large sizes. His dad was a successful basketball player. Yao wasn't interested in basketball as a child. He was tall but very thin, and he wasn't very strong. 10 Yao's parents were very encouraging, and by the age of 12, he was serious about basketball. His progress at Shanghai's sports academy was excellent. Soon he was on his local youth team. Yao's big chance to play for the Chinese national team was in 1999 15 in the Asian Cup. By 2002, he was a member of the Houston Rockets, one of the top professional teams in the U.S. At the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, he was the flag carrier for the entire Chinese team and a member of the 20 basketball team. Yao Ming is a celebrity, and his smiling face appears in commercials around the world. He has fans everywhere! After Reading 1. Where was Yao Ming born? 2. Were his parents short? 3. When was Yao first serious about basketball? 4. What was the name of his team in the U.S.? 5. What was his role in the Olympic Games of 2008 in Beijing? 6. Does he have fans only in his home country? وزارة التعليم Ministry of Education 2024-1446 SG_01_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 137 137 29/4/24 11:35 PM

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