[00:01.31]Module 12 YAO MING
[00:04.59]UNIT 1 A great player and a nice person
[00:09.86]1 Listen and read. Then say.
[00:14.01]A great player and a nice person
[00:17.58]Yao Ming is a famous basketball player.
[00:21.73]He is from China and he plays
[00:23.76]for a famous American basketball team,
[00:26.78]the Houston Rockets.
[00:28.78]He has been playing for the Houston Rockets
[00:31.30]since 2002.When Yao Ming plays basketball,
[00:36.72]he doesn't shout at the other players,
[00:39.42]and he donesn't get angry, either.
[00:42.22]Everybody likes him
[00:43.60]because he is a very nice person.
[00:46.19]Yao Ming lives in America now.
[00:48.66]He said that life in the USA
[00:51.15]was very different to life in China.
[00:54.27]However, Yao Ming said that he enjoyed life
[00:57.69]in the USA.
[00:59.89]English is a difficult language to learn,
[01:02.98]but Yao Ming can speak it very well now.
[01:06.29]In the last two Olympic Games,
[01:08.67]Yao Ming has been on the Chinese
[01:11.15]basketball team.
[01:13.36]I wonder if he and the Chinese team.
[01:16.36]will win a medal in the Beijing Olympic!
[01:19.39]Yao Ming has many fans.
[01:22.73]His fans are not only Chinese
[01:25.18]but also Westerners.
[01:27.26]Some fans have set up web sites
[01:29.73]about Yao Ming on the Internet.
[01:32.28]There is a lot of information about him
[01:34.44]on the Internet.
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