Real-Life Communication -- Solution
Here are some things you could ask the class:
1) Who has played
basketball?
2) Who likes basketball? Who doesn't like it?
3)
Would you like to learn more about basketball?
4) If you don't like
basketball, or haven't played, what would get you excited to try it?
5)
Would playing with your friends and meeting new people make it more fun?
6)
Imagine going to a camp where you can play basketball and make new
friends. Does that sound like fun? What else would you do while at the camp?
Players
need to learn to communicate with a lot of different people, says player Sharon
Manning.
"When I was growing up, I used to be a very shy person and
I would never talk to people," Manning says. "But just being in basketball,
being in sports, you have to talk to people to get to know [them], and to
get to know your teammates."
Professional players interact with their
coaches, fans, teammates and reporters. All of this takes strong communication
skills to do well.
"Communicating with people is how you learn things,"
Manning says. "Like my mother says, you learn something new every day."