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Carmen García and Manuel Mato. Playing badminton (CC BY-NC-SA)

This unit is about badminton and how to perform its basic shots. Playing badminton will help you to improve your speed, agility and coordination.

Have a look at the navigation sidebar and you will see this topic is divided into several parts, with interactive tasks included.

All these tasks will help you do a project. In pairs, you can create your own badminton routines!

Reflexion

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What is badminton? Do you think that you can explain to someone who does not know badminton at all what it is about?

This task is going to help you to organize your ideas and give your classmates a definition of badminton.

Follow these steps to do this task:

  1. Read the words included in the table below.
  2. Read the text under the table.
  3. Use Wordreference to look up the meaning of the words that you don't know.
  4. Fill the gaps with the words in the table.
  5. Listen to the recording and change your answers, if you need to.
  6. Finally, click on the submit button to check your answers.

Ready? Let’t go to define badminton!

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Badminton is a racket sport like tennis or that involves two trying to keep a in the while passing it to one another .

Players use a light to hit the shuttlecock.

The shuttlecock is a small that has coming out of the back.

Badminton is played in a rectangular and it has especific that players have to follow.

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