原版英语RAZ 教案The Wonderful World Series.pdf

《原版英语RAZ 教案The Wonderful World Series.pdf》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《原版英语RAZ 教案The Wonderful World Series.pdf（9页珍藏版）》请在淘文阁 - 分享文档赚钱的网站上搜索。

1、www.readinga-www.readinga-Written by Xxxx Xxxxx Illustrated by Xxxx XxxxxLEVELED BOOK AAM Title Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.Visit www.readinga- for thousands of books and materials.LEVELED BOOK XWritten by Blane JeffriesThe Wonderful World SeriesA Reading AZ Level X Leve

2、led BookWord Count:1,562The Wonderful World SeriesThe Wonderful World Serieswww.readinga-The Wonderful World SeriesLevel X Leveled Book Learning AZWritten by Blane JeffriesAll rights reserved.www.readinga-Written by Blane JeffriesCorrelationLEVEL XS4040Fountas&PinnellReading RecoveryDRAPhoto Credits

3、:Front cover:REUTERS/Greg M.Cooper/USA TODAY Sports;back cover:Joseph Sohm/Visions of America/Corbis;title page:REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson;page 3:trekandshoot/iStock/Thinkstock;page 4:Matthew Healey/UPI/Landov;page 5:Mark Duncan/AP Images;page 6:The Granger Collection,NYC;page 7:Bettmann/Corbis;page 8:i

4、Stock/peter zelei;page 9(left):courtesy of Library of Congress,Prints&Photographs Division,LC-DIG-hec-01448;page 9(right):courtesy of Library of Congress,Prints&Photographs Division,LC-DIG-bbc-1984f;page 12:GraphicaArtis/Corbis;page 14(both):AP ImagesFront cover:The Boston Red Sox rejoice after defe

5、ating the St.Louis Cardinals in game six of the World Series,2013.Back cover:Fans cheer during a 2008 World Series game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.Title page:The San Francisco Giants jump for joy after defeating the Detroit Tigers in game one of the World Series,2012.34Table of ContentsBasebal

6、ls Grandest Stage .4The First World Series .6The Road to the World Series .10World Series Highlights .12Glossary .16Baseballs Grandest StageYour favorite team is ahead in the World Series,three games to two.One more win means a championship.Now theyre behind 6-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning.Wit

7、h one down and two men on,up comes Joe Carter.He drove in 121 runs in the regular season,third best in the league.The slugger knocked in a run earlier but has not had a good series.The 52,195 voices in the stadium swing between hushed silence and throaty roars.Meanwhile,40 million people watch the g

8、ame on television.The opposing teams ace reliever,Mitch Williams,brings the count to two balls,two strikes.What will he throw next?Will Carter be the hero or the goat?Heres the pitch .the swing .Crack!The ball soars high,higher .will it get out?It does!The hometown crowd goes wild as Carter leaps ar

9、ound the bases.Its a game-winning,series-winning,walk-off three-run home run.Never before in the history of the World Series has a player clinched the“Fall Classic”with a come-from-behind home run.The Commissioners Trophy goes to the team that wins the World Series.National League:46American League:

10、63World Series Wins by League 19032013The Wonderful World Series Level X56This thrilling,dramatic ending sounds like a Hollywood movie.Its not.Its the true story of the 1993 World Series.Unbelievable moments of clutch hitting,clever pitching,and great fielding have been woven through the World Serie

11、s century-plus history.October is when stars showcase their amazing talents and when unknown players shine in the spotlight of baseballs grandest stage.The First World SeriesBaseball captured the countrys imagination in the mid-nineteenth century when amateurs played the game for fun and exercise.In

12、terest in the game led to the creation of a National League(NL)of professional teams in 1876.Other professional leagues came and went in the following decades.Sometimes the best teams in each league played against each other,but these season-ending games were never very popular.Toronto Blue Jay Joe

13、Carter made World Series history in 1993 with his home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.The National Leagues Chicago White Stockings(future White Sox)in 1882The Wonderful World Series Level X78By 1901,however,demand for play of a high caliber led to the creation of a new,competitive American Le

14、ague(AL).At first,team owners and players in the NL ignored the AL,calling it a minor league.Meanwhile,though,the AL had lured players away from the NL.Many of its teams were in the same cities as the NL,and fans of the publics national pastime went to see AL games.That hurt NL team owners where the

15、y felt it most:their pocketbooks.The owners quickly realized they could make extra money by staging a contest between the top teams from both leagues.The players would share in the gate fees.So,in 1903,the AL Boston Americans,nicknamed the Pilgrims,took on the NLs best:the Pittsburgh Pirates.This fi

16、rst series between the NL and AL was not a formal competition.Yet it offered a range of heart-stopping highs and heartbreaking lows.Such moments have since become a constant of the World Series.The underdog Boston team,down three games to one,came back with four straight victories.The AL pitching gr

17、eat Cy Young won two of those games.Meanwhile,Honus Wagner,the NL batting champ,choked under the pressure.He hit a measly .222 and made six errors.At the first World Series,in 1903,crowds clustered around the outfieldand the infield!Each player on the team gets a bonus for winning the World Series.T

18、he payment is based on a percentage of income from World Series tickets.The percentage going to players has risen in recent decades.Tickets have also grown very expensive.Fortunately,fans today can watch the game on TV.Winners Share$400,000$350,000$300,000$250,000$200,000$150,000$100,000$50,000$0190

19、3 1913 1923 1933 1943 1953 1963 1973 1983 1993 2003 2013The Wonderful World Series Level XWorld Series Boston1903 501967$42013$423single game ticket price910In 1904,the NL-leading New York Giants refused to accept the post-season challenge from the AL.In October 1905,though,the NL Giants took on the

20、 AL powerhouse Philadelphia Athletics.What a history-making series it was!The baseball wisdom of“good pitching beats good hitting”was on display.The Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson,just 25,had won 94 games in the last three seasons.Over the course of six days,he threw three shutouts.Thats 27 inning

21、s without a single run scoring.He did it with style,too,striking out 18 and walking only one batter.From that year on,a best-of-seven World Series became an official event.The Road to the World SeriesToday,the World Series is the high point of the Major League Baseball(MLB)season.The winner of the A

22、merican League(AL)playoffs faces the winner of the National League(NL)playoffs in a best-of-seven series.The team that wins the World Series gets to claim the Commissioners Trophy along with bragging rights as the“best in the world”for a year.Reaching the World Series,though,is a long,hard trip.Firs

23、t,each of the thirty MLB teams (15 teams in each league)plays 162 games.The regular season lasts from April through September.Then there are playoffs in each league:a wild card playoff,two division series,and a league championship.Heres how it works:Each league has fifteen teams in three geographic

24、divisions(East,Central,West).Each division has five teams.The leader of each divisionthe team with the best season recordautomatically earns a spot in the playoffs.Thats six teams.Two teams from each league with the next-best records are the“wild card”teams.They play a one-game playoff for the last

25、spot in the Division Series.So ten teams in total make the playoffs.The AL team and the NL team that win their leagues playoffs advance to the World Series.Christy Mathewsons record-setting three shutouts in the 1905 World Series have never been equaled.“Matty”was modern baseballs first superstar.Th

26、e Wonderful World Series Level X1112The trip to the first World Series,in 1903,was not as complicated.Back then,there were only sixteen teams,eight in each league.There were no playoffs,either;the team from each league with the best season record went straight to the World Series.The World Series is

27、 a best-of-seven playoff.It pits the two teams against each other for as many games as it takes for one of the teams to win four games.Two games are played at the home stadium of one team.The next three games(if necessary)are played at the home stadium of the other team.The final two games(if necess

28、ary)are played back at the first teams home stadium.By game seven,someone has to win the series.World Series HighlightsChristy Mathewsons performance in the 1905 World Series made him a superstar.The World Series grew as well,becoming the climax of professional American sports.Back then,football was

29、 mostly a college game.Basketball,invented only a few years earlier,was decades away from becoming a professional sport.Hockey and soccer,popular in other countries,were not well known in the United States.Baseball,especially the World Series,was the most talked-about,reported-on,and eagerly awaited

30、 sporting event.The attention focused on the World Series inspired the players,too.Some of baseballs most amazing and memorable feats have happened during the World Series.Babe Ruths Called ShotNY Yankees vs.Chicago Cubs,Game 3,19322013 PlayoffsSt.LouisSt.LouisSt.LouisDetroitDetroitBostonBostonBosto

31、nBostonwon 4 of 6 gamesbeat Cincinnati for wild card slotbeat Cleveland for wild card slotLos AngelesLos AngelesDivision SeriesChampionship SeriesChampionship SeriesDivision SeriesAmerican LeagueNational LeaguePittsburghTampa BayAtlantaOaklandWorld Series ChampionBabe RuthThe Cubs are down two games

32、 to none.Their fans boo loudly when Yankees home-run king,Babe Ruth,hits one out in the first inning.By the fifth,the Cubs have tied the game 4-4.Ruth comes up to an even louder chorus of boos.The Wonderful World Series Level X1314The pitcher throws a strike.Ruth holds up a finger,seemingly pointing

33、 toward center field.The pitcher throws another called strike.Ruth holds up the finger again,as if saying,“Throw me another one like that,and Ill hit it to center field.”The pitcher takes the challenge.Ruth swings and sends the ball over the wall in deep center field.The crowd goes silent,and Ruth l

34、aughs while rounding the bases.Did Ruth really“call”where he was going to hit the ball?Or was Ruth holding up his fingers to note the count?Was he just trying to quiet the crowd?Theres no instant replay to help us know what really happened in that World Series game,nor does it really matter.Ruths co

35、lorful performance in front of a World Series crowd has become a baseball legend.Willie Mayss CatchNY Giants vs.Cleveland Indians,Game 1,1954“Unbelievable!Miraculous!”cry the broadcasters.Then Mays has the presence of mind to whirl and uncork an amazing throw back to the infield.The startled runners

36、 return to their bases.This long out killed the Indians momentum and set the tone for the series,which the Giants won four games in a row.Reggie Jackson,“Mr.October”NY Yankees vs.LA Dodgers,Game 6,1977The Yankees are ahead,three games to two,and lead 7-3 in the eighth.Up steps Reggie Jackson.What a

37、game hes had!He hit home runs in the fourth and fifth innings,both times on the first pitch and from different pitchers.With the score tied 2-2 in the eighth,the Indians have put two runners on base.Vic Wertz blasts one to deep center field.The Giants Willie Mays turns at the crack of the bat.He spr

38、ints straight to the outfield wall,some 450 feet(137 m)from home plate.Like a football wide receiver,he extends his hands at just the right moment and makes an over-the-shoulder catch.Willie Mayss catch has never been equaled for grace,speed,and exactness on such a big stage.Reggie JacksonThe Wonder

39、ful World Series Level X1516Heres the first pitch from a third pitcher,Charlie Hough .Smack!Its going,going .Kiss it goodbye!Reggie Jackson is the first player to hit three home runs in a single World Series game since Babe Ruth in 1928.More remarkably,he did it on the first pitch each time.Jackson

40、set another World Series record in 1978,hitting a total of five home runs and earning the nickname“Mr.October.”The grand stage of the World Series has also hosted two of the rarest feats in baseball.In 1920,it was a one-man triple play.In one play,second baseman Bill Wambsganss made all three defens

41、ive outs by himself!In 1956,Don Larsen pitched a perfect game.Not one opposing batter got on base.What will happen at this years World Series?Come October,tune in and find out.Glossarycaliber(n.)the degree of skill,ability,or importance(p.7)division(n.)a separate group that is part of a larger organ

42、ization or group(p.10)feats(n.)amazing actions or accomplishments(p.12)league(n.)a group of sports teams that play each other(p.4)playoffs(n.)a series of games played after the end of the regular season to determine a champion(p.10)professional(adj.)earning money for taking part in an activity rathe

43、r than doing it purely for pleasure(p.6)season(n.)a certain time of year when something usually happens,such as a sport being played or a type of weather taking place(p.4)shutouts(n.)games in which one side never scores(p.9)triple play(n.)a play in baseball that gets three players out(p.15)underdog(

44、n.)the expected loser in a struggle or contest(p.8)wild card(n.)a player or team chosen to take part in a competition after the other competitors have qualified(p.10)World Series(n.)the annual championship of U.S.Major League Baseball(p.4)Underdog UpsetAfter seven dreadful and frequently embarrassing years when the franchise first started,the lowly New York Mets,who finished ninth in 1968,beat 100-to-1 odds and made the World Series in 1969.They went on to overcome the highly favored Baltimore Orioles 4-1,earning them the nickname“Miracle Mets.”Perfect PlaysThe Wonderful World Series Level X