Physical Education and Health (Grade 11)

Physical Education and Health (Grade 11)

• Sports: Organized, competitive, entertaining, and movement activities requiring commitment, strategy, discipline, and fair play. Competition involves contests or tournaments.
• Individual Sports: Features one player
• Dual Sports: Involve two players
• Team Sports: Employ three or more players
• Athletics: One of the oldest forms of organized sports.
• Pole Vault: An athletic event where an athlete runs, holds a pole, and vaults over a bar.
• Long Jump: A track and field event popular since ancient Greece.
• High Jump: Athletes run and jump over a bar. The bar cannot be knocked over.
• Javelin: Track and field event involving throwing a javelin after running a distance.
• Shot Put: An Olympic sport where participants push or put a heavy metal ball.
• Chess: A two-player strategy board game with a history dating back about 1500 years, derived from the Indian game Chaturanga. The game uses a checkered board with 64 squares (8x8 grid).
• Queen (in Chess): Can move any number of vacant squares diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.

Badminton Terminology

• Side Out: Loss of service.
• Let: When the serve hits the top of the net and lands in the proper court.
• In-Side: The serving team.
• Match: Winning two out of three games.
• Doubles: Match with two players per team.
• Rally: Sequence of strokes starting with the serve, until the shuttlecock is no longer in play.
• Out-Side: The receiving team.
• Singles: Match with one player per team.
• Fault: Violation of the rules.
• Birdie: Another name for the Shuttlecock.

Other Sports Information

• Badminton: Named after Badminton House, Gloucestershire. Also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff.
• Table Tennis: Another name for ping-pong.
• Knight (in Chess): Moves in an "L" or "7" shape on the chessboard.
• Bishop (in Chess): Moves diagonally any number of vacant squares.
• King (in Chess): Moves one square horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.