SUMMARY

Badminton is a racquet sports played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their opponents' half of the court.A rally ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor. In mid-18th century at British India,the game came to be known as Poona. The balls of wool referred as ball badminton.In 1887, the sport was played in England under the rules that prevailed in British India. The basic regulations were drawn up in 1887. In 1893, the Badminton Association of England published the first set of rules and they started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.Besides,The International Badminton Federation (IBF) known as Badminton World Federation) was established in 1934.The BWF now governs international badminton and develops the sport globally. Besides,badminton rules restrict the design and size of racquets and shuttlecocks. Badminton rules also provide for testing a shuttlecock for the correct speed. Each game is played to 21 points and.at the start of the rally, the server and receiver stand in diagonally opposite service courts.When the serving side loses a rally, the serve immediately passes to their opponent.In singles, the server stands in their right service court when their score is even, and in her or his left service court when her or his score is odd.In doubles, if the serving side wins a rally, the same player continues to

serve.If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves, if odd, the player in the left service court serves.At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first. In subsequent games, the winners of the previous game serve first.Besides,If a let is called, the rally is stopped and replayed with no change to the score. Besides,the equipments of Badminton racquets are lightweight, with top quality racquets weighing and the laws limit the racquet size and shape.Badminton strings are thin, high performing strings.Thicker strings are more durable.A shuttlecockis covered with thin leather or synthetic material.Badminton shoes must be lightweight. Other than that,the BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, and the Uber Cup.The competitions take place once every two years.The final tournament involves 12 teams.The Sudirman Cup, a gender-mixed international team event held once every two years.Teams are divided into seven levels based on the performance of each country. The Thomas, Uber, and Sudirman Cups, the Olympics, and the BWF World (and World Junior Championships), are all categorized as level one tournaments.Level three tournaments consist of Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix event.Top players can collect the world ranking points and enable them to play in the BWF Super Series open tournaments.The level four tournaments, known as International Challenge, International Series and Future Series, encourage participation by junior players.

There are more strategy to win in badminton players need to employ a wide variety of strokes in the right situations.These range from powerful jumping smashes to delicate tumbling net returns.Often rallies finish with a smash.Besides,deception is different strokes that look identical and use slicing to deceive their opponents about the speed or direction of the stroke.Both pairs will try to gain and maintain the attack, smashing downwards when possible.If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend,they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt.Players generally smash to the middle ground.Singles tactics are based on forcing the opponent to move as much as possible.Combining lifts and clears with drop shots and net shots.Both pairs typically try to maintain an attacking formation with the woman at the front and the man at the back.Clever opponents will try to reverse the ideal position, by forcing the woman towards the back or the man towards the front.

INSTITUT PENDIDIKAN GURU KAMPUS PULAU PINANG

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

NAME: CLASS: GROUP:

MUHAMMAD HAFIZ BIN ISMAIL 3MU1 PPISMP AMBILAN JUN 2010

LECTURER: CIK SITI JALEHA BT ABU BAKAR