Subject grammar profiles

PE

PE language is mostly spoken: instructions, feedback and quick evaluation of performance.

Imperatives and instructions

Why it matters

Students follow fast spoken instructions, often while moving.

Sentence frame

Keep your ___ ___ when you ___.

Strategies that help

Evaluative language

Why it matters

Peer and self-assessment ask students to judge performance and suggest improvements.

Sentence frame

My ___ was more ___ than last time because ___.

Strategies that help

Adverbs of manner and comparatives

Why it matters

Technique is described with how words: faster, more smoothly, land softly.

Sentence frame

Try to ___ more ___ so that ___.

Strategies that help