Year 8 - Physical education
Tournament time with performing and officiating roles in doubles pairings
Net and wall games: technical proficiency and problem solving through badminton
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Unit Summary
This unit will apply hand-eye coordination and racket skills to badminton with a focus on problem solving to win points and increasing proficiency with serves, clears and smashes. Pupils will also develop their ability to analyse performances to identify strengths and weaknesses.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to play in a round robin tournament and officiate games effectively.
Key Notes
- Move: playing to the back by hitting deep forehand and backhand shots, helps build winning opportunities.
- Think: when officiating, it is important to make loud, clear calls of the score or whether the shuttle lands in or out.
- Think: if your team's score is even then you serve from the right, if it is odd, you serve from the left.
- Feel: achieving a personal best performance isn't always about winning the match.
- Connect: ethics in sport are moral principles that guide us to play fairly with respect, integrity and good etiquette.
Vocabulary To Learn
- round-robin: a tournament where every player plays every player in their league, as opposed to a knock-out or elimination event
- umpire: the official who keeps the score and enforces the rules
- line judge: decides if the shuttle has landed in (on the line) or not
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils blame each other and lose focus rather than remaining positive and regrouping.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: playing to the back by hitting deep forehand and backhand shots, helps build winning opportunities. Think: when officiating, it is important to make loud, clear calls of the score or whether the shuttle lands in or out.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'round-robin'
a tournament where every player plays every player in their league, as opposed to a knock-out or elimination event.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils blame each other and lose focus rather than remaining positive and regrouping. Correction: Remind pupils that the balanced teams mean everyone should have an equal chance of winning. Hence it is the pair who gel the best and work hard to win as many points as possible across all their matches that will win.
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