Using English in our physical education lessons

Hi again!

Today we are going to speak about the use of the English language in our lessons, in this case, in a typical lesson of the first period of the year (September – December) for 4^th of ESO. Throughout this year, students will learn how to carry out a specific warm-up depending on the following activity, to calculate their heart rate in order to control the intensity of the exercise being performed, or the different strategies to improve their endurance (jogging, fartleck, interval training), flexibility or strength (circuit training).

As the months go by, students will learn specialized vocabulary and they will know how to improve their quality of life. They will learn a number of definitions including physical fitness, physical activity, physical exercise, a fartleck or an interval training or a circuit training program, etc. 

Moreover, they will learn the different parts that a warm-up has, and what its objective is. What type of training is the best one to improve their health, or the type of diet that is recommended in order to eat healthy,

On the other hand, the students are bound to experience many different types of linguistic exchanges, such as:

• -          How do you control the intensity of your training? What are the lower and upper limits of your heart rate that you should take into account when improving health is the objective of your training? What should you do in case it’s too high/low?

-         Students will need to control their heart rate and increase/decrease the intensity of their training, they will have to write down their eating habits for one week and analyse them and suggest changes in order to make it healthier, or create their own training program (for how long? At which intensity? Doing which type of exercise?) aiming to improve their health.

In conclusion, we have seen throughout this post that during our physical education lessons, the English language is very useful and using it in our daily routine is a very interesting and practical way of learning this language.