Recreation, leisure and dance activities II

Physical and health education J.S.S 2 Third Term

Week 2

Recreation, leisure and dance activities II

Performance objectives:

Students should be able to:

1. Take part in recreational activities such as Ludo, table tennis, soccer.

Content

Demonstration of recreational activities

Table tennis

i. Get a table board, net, balls (eggs), net support and bats.

ii. Set the table and make a toss of a coin or spin a bat.

iii. The winner then makes a choice of ends or service.

iv. Serve the ball, and then the game has already started.

v. Nobody is allowed to touch the table during the game.

vi. Service should be changed at the end of 5 points.

vii. When equal points are scored by the players, it means deuce.

viii. When the ball hits the net and it is unable to return or it’s played outside the table, the player has lost a point and the opponent has gained a point.

ix. The player with the highest points wins the game.

Ludo

Ludo is a game played on a square board made of glass. The game is played

By 2, 3 or 4 players and the houses are in different colours; red, blue, green, and yellow.

 

Ludo game

The players played the game by throwing dice. Each group has four tokens that bear the same colour as the house.

How to play Ludo

i. Choose a colour and place your tokens.

ii. Roll the dice, when it appears 6-1, 6-2, etc. the token can come out of the house.

iii. You can return your opponent token back to the house when your counting is exactly on the opponent token and vice-versa.

iv. The first person to carry all the tokens home or returns the opponent token back home without having any token left is the winner.

Soccer

Soccer is a ball game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into the opponent’s goal post primarily by kicking the ball with their feet. Three substitutes are allowed in the game, each team can score as many goals as they are able to, but if they score the same numbers of goal, it means they played a draw.

 

Soccer game

The duration of the game is 90 minutes, 45 minutes for each half time. Where the game is still a draw at the end of the full 90 minutes, an extra 30 minutes are awarded, 15 minutes per half, after which it will result in penalties.

Basic skills and Techniques in soccer includes

1. Passing

2. Dribbling

3. Throwing

4. Tackling

5. Jugging

6. Kicking/shooting

7. Heading

8. Goal-keeping

9. Trapping (ball control)