Hi-Lo: Baseball Is A Hit In Japan

Hi-Lo: Baseball Is A Hit In Japan

By Lisa Siewert

4.0-4.5

Main Idea/Details​

​Check Your Understanding

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​ On the following slides, select the best choice to answer the reading comprehension questions.

Multiple Choice

The main idea of this selection is that

• Masayasu Okada is a baseball fan.

• Baseball is a popular sport in Japan.

• Japanese fans belong to an oendan.

• The Japan series is like the World Series.

Multiple Choice

How is Japanese baseball different from American baseball?

• Games can end in a tie.

• Fans get to keep home run balls.

• Fans support their home team.

• Fans have fun at games.

Multiple Choice

Japanese fans support their teams by

• Joining an oendan

• Returning home run balls

• Giving money to players

• Play the game when not watching it

Multiple Choice

What do members of an oendan do?

• Keep home run balls

• Watch the World Series

• Cheer, yell, bang drums, wave flags and pom-poms for their team

• Follow the rules of American baseball

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an opinion?

• Millions of Japanese attend ball games every year.

• Among Japanese kids, baseball is a popular sport.

• Japanese fans are more enthusiastic than American fans.

• In Japan, fans must return foul balls.

​Find each vocabulary word in the selection. The words and sentences around it will help you to figure out its meaning.

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Choose the answer with the best definition of the underlined word in the following slides. ​

​Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

The Japanese people have their own version of the World Series.

• Different form of something

• Something that is opposite

• One part of a poem or a song

• Type of game

Multiple Choice

Among kids, baseball is Japan's most prevalent sport.

• Unpleasant

• Unusual

• Expensive

• Common

Multiple Choice

Japan has had professional baseball leagues since 1935.

• Equipment players use

• Fans watching a sport

• Television programmes about sports

• Sports teams that play each other

Multiple Choice

In Japan, games can end in a tie.

• Long piece of fabric worn around the neck

• Join with a bow or not

• Even score

• Big traffic jam

Multiple Choice

Many spectators attend the games.

• People who watch a game

• People who play a game

• Televise a game

• People from another country

​A compound word is made of two shorter words. To understand a compound word, separated into the two shorter words and think about the meaning of those words.

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ear + ache = earache​

​Word Work

​Combine a word from Column 1 with a word from Column 2. Type the word.

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Multiple Choice

Write the word that best completes the sentence.

When the batter hit a home run, his ______________ congratulated him.

• Ballpark

• Underfoot

• Flagpole

• Ballgames

• Teammates

Multiple Choice

Write the word that best completes the sentence.

The foul ball hit the ____________.

• Ballpark

• Underfoot

• Flagpole

• Ballgames

• Teammates

Multiple Choice

Write the word that best completes the sentence.

The __________ was crowded with fans watching the game.

• Ballpark

• Underfoot

• Flagpole

• Ballgames

• Teammates

Multiple Choice

Write the word that best completes the sentence.

You can watch some ___________ on TV.

• Ballpark

• Underfoot

• Flagpole

• Ballgames

• Teammates

Multiple Choice

Write the word that best completes the sentence.

The ball field grass was soft ___________.

• ballpark

• underfoot

• flagpole

• ballgames

• teammates