3 Read the text again and answer the questions. 1 Where is basketball from?
2 What do the substitutes do?
3 How long is a basketball game?
4 How many hands can you use to bounce a
ball?
5 Can you kick the ball?
6 What happens when a player breaks a rule?

1. The earliest mention of the game of ball, similar to basketball, is found in the records of the Indian peoples of Mexico and Central America and dates back to 1500 BC.

2. A substitute is a person who stands in place of an athlete or replaces him in a game

3.The duration of the game is four periods of 10 minutes each, with two-minute breaks between the first and second and third and fourth quarters, and a long break of 15 minutes between the second and third periods.

4.A dribble is movement of the ball, caused by a player in control, who throws or taps the ball to the floor.

a. The dribble ends when the dribbler:

Touches the ball simultaneously with both hands

Permits the ball to come to rest while he is in control of it

Tries for a field goal

Throws a pass

Touches the ball more than once while dribbling, before it touches the floor

Loses control

Allows the ball to become dead

5.With the ball out of reach and nearing the floor, a player throws out a foot and manages to kick it to a teammate (or even over the net) to keep the play alive. ... The official rules of NCAA volleyball state that the ball can touch any part of the body when hitting, as long as it does not come to rest there.

6.When a player breaches multiple Rules or the same Rule multiple times, any relationship between the breaches is broken by an intervening event and the player will get multiple penalties. The three types of intervening events where the player will get multiple penalties are: Making a stroke.