| Bridge For Pleasure Teaching Scheme |
This scheme was developed for teaching duplicate bridge face to face in a class/bridge room.
However, it is being adapted for use online.
The courses start from bridge for complete beginners right through to learning complex bidding methods and card play.
The materials are free to use, largely in PDF documents available for download here.
There are six courses of ten lessons.
It's particularly aimed at volunteer bridge teachers, perhaps not the strongest players, teaching small groups.
But anyone is welcome to use it.
Bridge 1 Getting Started, Bridge 2 Building Your Skills and Bridge 3 Taking Acol Further are all loaded.
Advanced Lessons are being updated, checked, used and loaded.
Where there is a deal shown in the lesson files, use the form below to request the deal file in DLM, PBN or LIN format.
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| Bridge 1 Getting Started |
The goal of Bridge 1 is to prepare learners for gentle simple, supervised play.
Hand Evaluation, Card play in Trumps and No Trumps,
Opening Acol weak 1NT (not with 5 card major), responding with balanced hands, responding with unbalanced hand.
Opening 1 of a suit, limit raises, opener's re-bids with one suited, two suited, and balanced hands.
Most Lesson Plans have hints on teaching either face to face OR online.
Online teaching includes detailed suggestions for materials on www.nofearbridge.co.uk, an excellent bridge learning and teaching site.
BFP B1 System Summary BFP B1 Summary and Possible Next Steps
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| Bridge 2 Building Your Skills |
In the second ten lessons, the most commonly used understandings and skills are addded. Covered are: declarer card play, defence card play, simple competitive bidding and Stayman.
The goal of Bridge 2 is to prepare learners for the most common bidding and playing situations.
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| Bridge 3 Taking Acol Further |
In the third set of ten lessons, Simple approaches to some more unusual situations are covered and skills are further developed. Covered are: Losing Trick Count, Further Declarer Play, Bidding Strong Balanced and Unbalanced Hands, Simple Slam Tries, Review of Competitive Bidding adding the Protective Position, Opening and other leads, Signals and Discards, Transfers for Weak Take out and Game Tries.
The goal of Bridge 3 is to learn the skills and methods most club players will use regularly.
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| Advanced Bridge - Uncontested Auctions |
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| Advanced Competitive Bidding |
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| Teach with Bridge For Pleasure Free Scheme |
This scheme is available for you to use completely free.
It was originally developed for face to face teaching, but much of it is adapted for either face to face or teaching online.
There are sixty lessons grouped into three courses, Bridge 1, Bridge 2 and Bridge 3 and Advanced Lessons divided into three groups, Advanced Auctions (Uncontested), Advanced Competitive Auctions, and Advanced Card Play.
There are hundreds of PFD documents available for download here. There are deals associated with most lessons. You can request email of any of these deals in several formats. |
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