Year 11 - Physical education
Beating your opposition in singles and doubles
Net and wall games: teaching others tactics and strategies in table tennis
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop core skills required for table tennis and transfer ideas, tactics and strategies from other racket sports. Pupils will focus on fair play and learn about a variety of ways to organise tournaments to help balance competition.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify the opposition's weaknesses to exploit them in a game situation.
Key Notes
- Move: changing the pace and spin requires different shapes and sizes of backswing and follow-through.
- Think: once a weakness is identified, it is effective to keep hitting to that area (e.g. backhand or close to the body).
- Feel: figuring out how to exploit your opposition's weaknesses is motivating.
- Connect: can adjust tactics with a partner to respond to different opposition.
Vocabulary To Learn
- exploit: take advantage of a situation
- weakness: when a player has difficulty returning a certain shot in table tennis (e.g. spin, location or speed)
- ranking: the number assigned to players during a tournament based on their ability
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that in a game you should always try hit the ball to the back of the table to win.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: changing the pace and spin requires different shapes and sizes of backswing and follow-through. Think: once a weakness is identified, it is effective to keep hitting to that area (e.g. backhand or close to the body).
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'exploit'
take advantage of a situation.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that in a game you should always try hit the ball to the back of the table to win. Correction: While hitting to the back of the table can be effective, it's not always the best strategy. Mixing up your shots, using different spins and placing the ball in various spots on the table can be more effective.
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