Teacher Manual - American Contract Bridge League

School Bridge Lesson Series Program

Teacher Manual

By Kitty Cooper

with content assistance from Felicity Moore Updates by Betty Starzec and Julie Greenberg

Updated March 2009 to compliment the revised ACBL text, Bidding in the 21st Century

American Contract Bridge League

Acknowledgements

Added text by Audrey Grant Design/Layout: Cindy Hill

With Extensive use of the ACBL Club Series And English Bridge Union MiniBridge Materials

ACBL School Bridge Lesson Series Teacher Manual

Table of Contents

INSTRUCTION Overview of Teaching Approach......................................................................................................1 Tips for Teaching Young People........................................................................................................2 Classroom Control and Discipline....................................................................................................3 Use Reinforcement Sparingly: More Advice for Teachers...............................................................4 Tips and Suggestions........................................................................................................................5 When Your Number of Players is Not Divisible by Four..................................................................5

LESSON 1 -- The Deck of Cards and Taking Tricks...............................................................................6 Exercise 1: Rank of the Cards..........................................................................................................7 Exercise 2: Shuffling and Dealing....................................................................................................7 Exercise 3: Sorting into Suits...........................................................................................................7 Exercise 4: Taking Tricks..................................................................................................................8 Exercise 5: Predicting Your Winners................................................................................................9 Exercise 6: Playing in a Trump Contract........................................................................................10 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................10

LESSON 2 -- Whist ? Playing with a Partner........................................................................................11 Exercise 1: Repeat the Trick-taking and Trump Exercises.............................................................11 Exercise 2: Playing with a Partner..................................................................................................12 Exercise 3: Picking a Trump Suit...................................................................................................13 Exercise 4: Playing with a Dummy................................................................................................13 Exercise 5: (Optional) Picking a Trump Suit with Partner.............................................................13 Exercise 6: (Optional) Whist Scoring.............................................................................................13 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................13

LESSON 3 -- MiniBridge Part 1 (Row 1 Deals)....................................................................................14 Exercise 1: Counting High-Card Points.........................................................................................14 Exercise 2: Points of the Compass..................................................................................................15 Exercise 3: Using the E-Z Deal Cards............................................................................................15 Exercise 4: The Fist MiniBridge Deal............................................................................................16 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................17

LESSON 4 -- MiniBridge Part 2 (Row 2 Deals)....................................................................................22 Exercise 1: Start Keeping Statistics................................................................................................23 Exercise 2: Keeping Score..............................................................................................................24 Exercise 3: Contracts......................................................................................................................25 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................28

LESSON 5 -- Game Contracts and Promotion (Row 3 Deals)..............................................................32 Exercise 1: Contracts......................................................................................................................33 Exercise 2: Scoring with Game Bonuses........................................................................................34 Exercise 3: Promoting High Cards ? The Rest of the Deals...........................................................35 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................36

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LESSON 6 -- BridgeIt and Length Tricks (Row 4 Deals).....................................................................38 Introduce the Game of BridgeIt......................................................................................................39 Developing Tricks from an Eight-Card Fit.....................................................................................40 Learning Distributional Points.......................................................................................................41 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................43

LESSON 7 -- More BridgeIt and Finesses (Row 5 Deals).....................................................................46 Learning about Finesses.................................................................................................................46 How Many Points are Needed for Game?......................................................................................48 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................50

LESSON 8 -- Opening the Bidding (Row 2 Deals)...............................................................................51 Opening the Bidding.......................................................................................................................51 Defender's Finesses ? Why Lead Top of a Sequence?....................................................................53 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................56

LESSON 9 -- Responding to 1NT (Row 3 Deals).................................................................................59 Review the 1NT Opening Bid........................................................................................................59 How to Respond to the 1NT Opening Bid.....................................................................................59 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................63

LESSON 10 -- Responding to One of a Major with a Fit......................................................................65 Introducing Dummy Points.............................................................................................................67 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................69

LESSON 11 -- Responding to One of a Suit without a Major Suit-Fit..................................................72 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................76

LESSON 12 -- Overcalling (Row 7 Deals)............................................................................................77 Competitive Bidding and Penalty Doubles.....................................................................................77 Counting Losers..............................................................................................................................78 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................81

LESSON 13 -- Opener's (Overcaller's) Rebid........................................................................................82 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................86

LESSON 14 -- Responder's Rebid (Row 6 Deals).................................................................................89 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................93

LESSON 15 -- Doubles (Row 8 Deals)..................................................................................................94 Double is for Takeout When...........................................................................................................95 Summary. .......................................................................................................................................97

LESSON 16 -- Final Week ? Hold a Competition.................................................................................98

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Appendix A ? Exercises for Younger Children ? Lesson 1. ..................................................................100 Exercise 1: Rank of the Cards......................................................................................................100 Exercise 2: Taking Tricks..............................................................................................................101 Exercise 3: Following Suit and Sorting........................................................................................102

Appendix B ? Worksheet Answers........................................................................................................103 EBU MiniBridge Worksheet 1......................................................................................................103 MiniBridge Worksheet 2 (not EBU).............................................................................................104 Scoring: EBU MiniBridge Worksheet 2 (Answers)......................................................................105 EBL MiniBridge Worksheet 3......................................................................................................106 Modified EBL Worksheet 5 -- Finessing....................................................................................107

Appendix C ? Wizard Tip Cards............................................................................................................108 Row 2 Deals..................................................................................................................................108 Row 3 Deals..................................................................................................................................109 Row 4 Deals..................................................................................................................................110 Row 5 Deals..................................................................................................................................111 Row 6 Deals..................................................................................................................................112 Row 7 Deals..................................................................................................................................113 Row 8 Deals..................................................................................................................................114 Added Deals for Lesson 10..........................................................................................................115 Play of the Hand Series Deals for Lesson 13...............................................................................116

List of Figures

Figure 1 ? EBU Guide to Scoring.............................................................................................................8 Figure 2 ? Summary of MiniBridge Cards..............................................................................................18 Figure 3 ? MiniBridge Scoring................................................................................................................19 Figure 4 ? EBU MiniBridge Worksheet 1...............................................................................................20 Figure 5 ? Statistics Sheet.......................................................................................................................21 Figure 6 ? Scoring Examples...................................................................................................................25 Figure 7 ? Score Cards to Use.................................................................................................................29 Figure 8 ? MiniBridge Worksheet 2 (not EBU).......................................................................................30 Figure 9 ? Scoring: EBU MiniBridge Worksheet 2.................................................................................31 Figure 10 ? BridgeIt Announcing Forms.................................................................................................37 Figure 11 ? EBL MiniBridge Worksheet 3..............................................................................................44 Figure 12 ? Modified EBL Worksheet 5 ? Finessing..............................................................................45 Figure 13 ? Opening the Bidding............................................................................................................57 Figure 14 ? Responding to 1NT..............................................................................................................58 Figure 15 ? Added Deals for Lesson 10..................................................................................................64 Figure 16a ? Responding to One of a Major Opening Bid......................................................................70 Figure 16b ? Responding to one of a Minor Opening Bid......................................................................71 Figure 17 ? Opener's Rebids....................................................................................................................87 Figure 18 ? Responder's Rebids..............................................................................................................88 Figure 19 ? What Opener Has Shown.....................................................................................................90 Figure 20 ? Hand Record Template.........................................................................................................99

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