France Terminale Physical Education, Sports Practices and Culture
Chapters: 3
1. Physical practice
Deeper practice of chosen sports
- Physical Fitness – Physical fitness is the body's ability to do daily work, play and sport with energy to spare. It has five health-related components (heart-lung endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition) and six skill-related ones (speed, agility, power, balance, coordination, reaction time). We improve it with a planned programme using FITT (frequency, intensity, time, type) and training principles like overload, progression, specificity, rest and reversibility.
2. Study themes
Sport in today’s world: health, ethics, environment, economy · Sports technology: strategy and analysis
- Sport and Society – Sport sociology looks at how sport and society shape each other. Physical activity runs from free play, through physical recreation, to sport, which has fixed rules, organisation and serious competition. Modern sport grew from loose local folk games: the industrial age brought written rules, clubs and governing bodies, and since about 1950 television, money and travel have made sport global and professional. Today sport, media and sponsors are tied together in a "golden triangle". Not every group takes part equally: cost, time, facilities, discrimination and stereotypes create barriers, so governments and clubs work for equal access, especially for women, disabled people, older people and low-income families. Sport also has a dark side, deviance such as doping, violence and match-fixing, which rules, testing and the law try to control. Sport can build health, identity and togetherness, but it can also divide.
- Sports Science and Technology – Sports science uses measurement, data and new equipment to help athletes improve and to keep sport fair. We observe performance, measure it (time, speed, heart rate), analyse video and data, turn the numbers into a plan, and judge whether new technology is fair. Many jobs come from this: coach, analyst, physiotherapist, sports scientist.
3. Project
Designing and leading a session
- Designing and Leading a Sports Session – A good session has an aim and four parts: warm-up, skill practice, game, cool-down. The coach shows, explains and lets players practise. The coach adapts tasks to each player (easier or harder) and checks at the end: was the aim met, was everyone safe, did all enjoy it?