Year 8 - Physical education
Building a team to perform tactics and strategies together
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents through football
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Unit Summary
This unit will apply a wider range of tactics and strategies through football. Increasingly complex approaches to attack and strategies to defend will be applied whilst enhancing knowledge of the rules and tactics specific to football. Pupils will also work on their organisational skills.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform in a team of increasing size and ensure everyone feels included.
Key Notes
- Move: cardiovascular endurance and speed enable players to get into space repeatedly for the whole game.
- Move: explosive speed and quick reactions help an attacker to beat a defender and create a goal scoring opportunity.
- Think: instigating the offside trap helps keep opposing strikers away from your goal.
- Connect: organising your team formation and strategies requires strong communication and rapport to be effective.
Vocabulary To Learn
- offside: when an attacking player is closer to the opponent's goal than both the ball and the second-last defender at the moment the ball is played to them
- tactics: the planned strategies, and decisions used by players or teams to gain an advantage and achieve their objectives
- formation: how players are positioned to balance attack and defence. The numbers represent defenders, midfielders and forwards
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When teaching the offside rule, pupils often struggle with understanding a player is offside when the ball is passed to them not when they receive it.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: cardiovascular endurance and speed enable players to get into space repeatedly for the whole game. Move: explosive speed and quick reactions help an attacker to beat a defender and create a goal scoring opportunity.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'offside'
when an attacking player is closer to the opponent's goal than both the ball and the second-last defender at the moment the ball is played to them.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When teaching the offside rule, pupils often struggle with understanding a player is offside when the ball is passed to them not when they receive it. Correction: Use cues to show the moment the ball was passed. For example, you could ask the pupils to freeze just as the ball is passed to determine whether they are offside or not.
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