Year: 7

Unit: Football
Lesson No: 1
Topic: Dribbling & Ball Control
Phase

Warm
Up

15
min

Content

Key Points

Pre-Match warm-up:
Intro to warm-up for football - football specific
movements and activities: jogging, skipping,
backwards and sideways jogging, heal flicks, high
knees, striding out, sprinting with change of peace
and direction.

1. Groups of 4 . Lines of 2 boys facing each other

20 m apart .
a) Dribbling the ball using better foot only.
Stopping the ball in front of the opposite line

and going at the back of it.

b) Both fit the some way.

Main
Part

20
min

2. One line of four the same distance to the

cones.
a) Dribbling to the cone, stopping the ball, turning,
dribbling back and stopping the ball in the front
of the next boy in the line.
b) Dribbling around the cone and back.

3. Relay Race Dribbling in chains

2 chains race. Dribbling around 2 cones and back.

Warm
Down

5
min

Picking up balls and cones.

Reinforcing important points of the lesson.
Walking to the changing room.

Stretching to be done
individually.

Have as many touches as

possible.
Keep the head up but look
at the ball as well.

Keep the ball close when

turning.
Have your body between
the cone and the ball
when dribbling around it.

Do not break the chain.