KS4 · Physical education · Year 11
Beating your opposition in singles and doubles
Net and wall games: teaching others tactics and strategies in table tennis
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Your learning goal
I can identify the opposition's weaknesses to exploit them in a game situation.
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Beating your opposition in singles and doubles: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can identify the opposition's weaknesses to exploit them in a game situation.
Key learning points
- Move: changing the pace and spin requires different shapes and sizes of backswing and follow-through.
- Think: once a weakness is identified, it is effective to keep hitting to that area (e.g. backhand or close to the body).
- Feel: figuring out how to exploit your opposition's weaknesses is motivating.
- Connect: can adjust tactics with a partner to respond to different opposition.
Words to know
- exploit
- take advantage of a situation
- weakness
- when a player has difficulty returning a certain shot in table tennis (e.g. spin, location or speed)
- ranking
- the number assigned to players during a tournament based on their ability
Common mistakes
Pupils think that in a game you should always try hit the ball to the back of the table to win.
While hitting to the back of the table can be effective, it's not always the best strategy. Mixing up your shots, using different spins and placing the ball in various spots on the table can be more effective.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may wish to laminate the tournament cards and rotations so they can be reused and written on with a whiteboard pen.