Year 10 - Physical education
Football practical assessment
Non-examined assessment: football practical
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Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios in association football. As a popular team sport offered by many pupils it will cover passing/ receiving, dribbling, shooting, ball control, tackling and decision making.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply your skills and tactical understanding in a conditioned and full context game.
Key Notes
- Move: cardiovascular endurance helps maintain the correct playing position and pressure on the ball throughout gameplay.
- Think: deciding when to attack on goal and when to regroup to work another angle requires patience.
- Feel: individuals need to manage their emotions well to cope when the team performance isn't going to plan.
- Connect: leadership of self and others through positivity and words of encouragement helps the collective performance.
Vocabulary To Learn
- throw-in: awarded when the ball crosses the touchline (sideline) and taken by the opposing team from whoever touched it last
- free kick: an unimpeded kick of a stationary ball awarded to one side as a penalty for a foul or infringement by their opposition
- corner: awarded when the whole ball crosses the goal line, either in the air or on the ground when it was last touched by a defending player
- offside: an attacking player is beyond the last defender when the ball is played
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- In a GCSE assessment the assessor will expect to see you be on the ball as an attacker and trying to beat defenders with tricks and feints.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: cardiovascular endurance helps maintain the correct playing position and pressure on the ball throughout gameplay. Think: deciding when to attack on goal and when to regroup to work another angle requires patience.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'throw-in'
awarded when the ball crosses the touchline (sideline) and taken by the opposing team from whoever touched it last.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: In a GCSE assessment the assessor will expect to see you be on the ball as an attacker and trying to beat defenders with tricks and feints. Correction: An assessor is looking for the selection of the most appropriate skill for the situation to outwit an opponent which could be a passing option or creating space. It is more about the contribution to the team performance and strategic application.
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