AQA A-level PE Section C 2024 Exam
Practice Tests
Popular recreation - Answer>> The sport and pastimes of
people in pre-industrial Britain
Characteristics of popular recreation - Answer>> limited
transport and communications
widespread illiteracy
harsh society
long working hours
fuedal system
The sports of popular recreation - Answer>> Mob football-
localised, male-dominated, played by the working class,
uncodified, uncontrolled
Real tennis- exclusive to upper class, codified, high moral code,
purpose built facilities
Foot racing- A form of competitive running/ walking in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries involving feats of
endurance, wagering of upper class
Wenlock Olympic Games - Answer>> Started in 1850 where
Wenlock set up Olympian class to promote moral and physical
values
First games in October 1850 with mixture of athletics and country
sports
1890- Baron Pierre de Coubertin visited and was inspired and
formed the modern Olympic society
Rational recreation - Answer>> Sports and pastimes for the
lower classes which were designed by the middle classes to be
well organised and controlled
, Characteristics of rational recreation - Answer>> Respectability
Regularly played
Codified
Purpose built facilities
Officials
Skills based
Urbanisation - Answer>> A large number of people migrating
from rural to towns and cities
Effects of urbanisation (pos+neg) - Answer>> first half-
overcrowding, lack of leisure time, lack of income, poor health and
hygiene, loss of rights, lack of public provisions
second half- health and hygiene improved, public baths, inc
wages and leisure time, devl middle class, ex public school boys,
improved transport and communications
Transport revolution - Answer>> development of steam trains
allowing an improved access to the country
Impacts of transport revolution - Answer>> Movement of
spectators and teams
Improved access to the country
Cheaper train travel
Improved access to the countryside
Improved communications - Answer>> Increased awareness
and knowledge of sport
Emergence of sporting heroes
Spread news of matches easily
Role models arise
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