Year 3 - Physical education
Formations and contrast: prepositions
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Unit Summary
A pure approach deepens understanding of Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships and how to create, develop and analyse ideas, motifs and dances. Pupils select and combine key elements to create effects, drawing parallels between communication methods and illustrate how artistic processes are applied.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use prepositions to arrange your position when working with others.
Key Notes
- Move: moving around others requires us to be precise in our actions.
- Move: using a range of formations to create different actions requires precision and control.
- Think: responding to the shapes and actions of others involves ongoing decision making.
- Feel: taking turns requires patience and self-discipline.
- Connect: a performance can communicate different ideas to different people in the audience.
Vocabulary To Learn
- formation: the position the performers are placed in
- contrast: distinctly different
- preposition: a word that indicates where something is relative to something else
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that prepositions are only used in writing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving around others requires us to be precise in our actions. Move: using a range of formations to create different actions requires precision and control.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'formation'
the position the performers are placed in.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that prepositions are only used in writing. Correction: Prepositions describe how things are arranged relative to other people or objects, so they can be used in all subject areas.
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- Directions and levels: movement Study Guide
- Dynamics: exclamation marks and fronted adverbials Study Guide
- Dynamics: fronted adverbial Study Guide
- Force: exclamation marks Study Guide
- Formations, contrast and question and answer: performing Study Guide
- Location and level: paragraphs Study Guide
- Question and answer: dialogue Study Guide
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