Volleyball 3º ESO

Let´s play volleyball.

The court:

The game is placed on a volleyball court 18 metres long and 9 metres wide, divided into two 9x9 m² halves. There is a line 3 metres from and parallel to the net in each team court which is considered the “attack line”. This 3 metre line divides the court into “back court” and “front court”.
The area 1 is the position of the SERVING PLAYER. After a team gains the serve, its members must rotate in a CLOCKWISE DIRECTION, with the player previously in area 2 moving to area 1 and so on, with the player from area 1 moving to area 6.

Game play:

Each team consists of six players. To get play started, a team is chosen to serve by COIN TOSS.
The SERVER throws the ball into the air and tries to hit the ball so it passes over the net and lands in the opposing team`s court. Many types of serves are employed, but the serves that we use do are the UNDERHAND SERVE and THE OVERHAND SERVE .Underhand serve is considered very easy to receive and is rarely employed in high- level competitions.

The opposing team must use a combination of no more than three contacts to the ball (one, two or three) to return the ball to the opponent`s side of the net.
These contacts usually consist of:
PASS OR BUMP, SET, ATTACK, BLOCK AND DIG.

First, the BUMP or PASS made by the PASSER or BUMPER(usually a pass with the arms together).

Second, the SET made by the SETTER (usually an over-hand pass using wrists to push finger-tips at the ball) so that the ball´s trajectory is aimed towards a spot where one of the players can hit it the attacker).

Third, the ATTACK made by the ATTACKER (jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball towards the ground of the opponent´s court).

The team with possession of the ball that is trying to attack the ball is on OFFENSE. The team on DEFENSE attempts to prevent the attacker from directing the ball into their court: players at the net jump and reach above the top of the net in order to block the attacked ball.

BLOCKING refers to the action taken by players standing at the net to stop or alter an opponent´s attack.

DIGGING is the ability to prevent the ball from touching one´s court after a spike or attack, particularly a ball that is nearly touching the ground. In many aspects, this skills is similar to passing or bumping: overhand dig and bump are also used to distinguish between defensive actions taken with fingertips or with joined arms.


Errors and faults.

-The ball lands out of the court.
-The ball is touched more than three times.
-The same player touches the ball twice in succession.
-The libero, a defensive player who can only play in the back row, tries a block or an attacking hit.
-A player is not in the correct position at the moment of serve, or serves out of turn.
-At the moment of serve, one or more players jump, raise their arms or stand together at the net, trying to block the ball.

Scoring.
When the ball contacts the floor within the court boundaries or an error is made, the team that did not make the error is awarded a point, whether they served the ball or not. The team that won the point serves for the next point. If the team that won the point served in the previous point, the same player serves again. If the team that won the point did not serve the previous point, the players of this team rotate their position on the court in a clockwise direction ( picture 1).
The game continues with the first team to score 25 points (and be two points ahead), awarding the set. Matches are best of five sets and the fifth set( if necessary) is usually played to 15 points.

Volleyball in the Olympics.
The history of Olympic volleyball traces back to the 1924 SUMMER OLYMPICS in Paris, where volleyball was played as part of and American sports demonstration event. The sport was officially included in the program for the 1964 SUMMER OLYMPICS.
Since 1996, both men´s and women´s events count twelve participant nations. Each of the five continental volleyball confederations has, at least, one affiliated national federation involved in the Olympics Games.
ASK THE QUESTIONS:
-When do the players rotate their position?
-When does a match finish?
-true or false: ---the same player can touch the ball twice in succession.
---the libero is a setter.
---the players have to be in the correct position at the moment of the serve.
---The sport was officially included in the program for the 1946 Summer Olympics.