KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Capoeira: improvised duets
Dance: crossing continents
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Your learning goal
I can improvise with a partner.
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Capoeira: improvised duets: 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 improvise with a partner.
Key learning points
- Move: Capoeira involves projecting a calm confidence through our actions.
- Think: maintaining focus on our opponent requires consistent concentration.
- Feel: ensuring non-contact requires both players to show self-discipline and control.
- Connect: adjusting our actions to respond to those of others involves empathy.
Words to know
- improvise
- to move spontaneously, without prior planning
- focus
- where a performer is looking
- develop
- ways to change or alter an action
Common mistakes
In Capoeira you use pre-recorded music.
In Capoeira the music is played live and the tempo and style of the music dictates the style of the game that will be played.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Matching pupils that are a similar height and build is likely to be benficial for all and further reduce risk of accidents.