MA13098 Mohd Areef Bin Beddu

MH13046 Muhammad Faiz Nazeri Bin Zawawi

OUTLINE - University student should be required to take physical education courses.
1. Introduction
- Briefing about physical education
- What is physical education
- History about physical education
- Reason on agreeing the topic and other reason on disagreeing the topic
2. Body paragraph
- Reason on supporting the topics
1. P.E have many benefits
- Physical education is good for a student physically, mentally and socially
- It prevents laziness in class because the brain works better.
- It reduces the risk of diabetes, heart disease, obesity and many other diseases.
It also promotes bone and muscle growth.
2. PE is not only about playing sport but develops many other factors
- How many other subjects are there that encourage teamwork, developing
social skills, encouraging people to work with people outside of their peer
groups.
- It maintains motor development, promoting health a fitness for a long life
health.
- that physical activity is beneficial not only for physical health, but also
mental health such as social anxiety, and stress relief.
3. In addition to health benefits, physical activity improves academic

performance
- there is a direct connection between physical activity and academic outcomes
- A potential link between exercise and academic performance can be
explained by both physiological and psychological factors such as increased
blood and oxygen flow to the brain, reduction of stress, improvement of
mood, and increased synaptic plasticity.
- give the brain a little boost from laziness and tiredness because of healthy \
lifestyle.
Articles for supporting information.
Reason based on articles.
Reason and information that oppose the topics.
1. It has no application in real life. P.E.
- kids that go into gym overweight don't leave any different
- waste precious time
- can be changes into many different classes such as survival skills or martial
arts.
2. It should be a choice for the student to decide to either take or not take a PE
class.
- student can replace it with personal teaching session
- health class for one semester should be mandatory because it is important to
learn about bodily health.

While a physical education course is essential for young children, it is useless

for high school student or university student
- PE allows students (around elementary school aged) to experience different
sports and provides them with the opportunity to get excess energy out.
- For university students, they are stressed enough. They do not need another
class to take up time they could be using to complete other schoolwork.
- Articles that oppose the topics.
3. Conclusion
- Conclusion on whether to support or oppose the topics based on reason and
articles in body paragraph.
Example words from articles.
1. We see more and more evidence about the benefit of physical activity, not just to our
bodies, but to our minds, yet educational institutions are not embracing their own
research. Brain scans have shown that physical activity improves the area of the brain
involved with high-level decision making. In addition, we know employers often are
concerned about employee health, in part because physically active employees attend
work more and tend to perform better. Cardinal
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-students-be-required-to-take-a-physical-educationcourse
http://www.supportrealteachers.org/articles-on-physical-education-physical-activity-academic-achievement.html
2. There was a time when after-school activities meant riding bikes, shooting hoops in
the backyard or even a neighborhood game of hide-and-seek that went on until dusk.
In todays complex world, after-school activities is almost a loaded term, more
about organizing the fun as opposed to the spontaneous exercise of past generations. It
needs, for example, to fit into the busy family schedule; it needs to be in a place thats
safe and supervised by adults, or even make up for all those hours the kids have spent
in front of the TV playing video games.
Ironically, we are more aware than ever of the importance of exercise for children in
promoting everything from long-term health to improving academic performance, but
at the same time the world has made it tougher to get Johnny or Susie outside to play.
- JOAN PATTERSON
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/education/many-schools-cutting-back-physicaleducation

3. "You have to look at the unintended consequences of things like this. They are wellmeaning, and they are good, but you have to alter the amount of time you have for
other subjects," - Mark Terry
The report recommends that the Department of Education designate
physical education as a core subject like math and reading. "It is as
important because it affects kids' health, cognitive function and overall
development," Kohl says.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/05/23/physical-educationschools/2351763/
4. Even a single bout of exercise changes blood flow to important areas of
the brain and helps children with cognition and memory, said Harold Kohl
III, professor of epidemiology and kinesiology at the University of Texas
School of Public Health and chairman of the committee that wrote the
report.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581038/Physical-activity-at-schoolmight-boost-grades-study-shows.html?pg=all
5. Combining exercise with school lessons could boost brain power. Physical
education classes may be scarce in some schools, but an activity program
combined with school lessons could boost academic performance, a study
finds.
May 02, 2011|By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/02/news/la-heb-gym-academics-20110502

One of compulsory educational course that need to take by Malaysian university students
is Physical Education or known as kokurikulum. Physical education is an educational
course related to the physique of the human body. Physical education classes always related
to physical body such as doing sport, exercise, running, aerobic and many other things that
related to physical body. As university student, we can see that many student think that
Physical Education is not important and a waste of time and physical education can be
replace with many other important courses such as tutor or study group. We think that
physical education need to be taken seriously by university student. It has an important role
other than learn about physique of the human body, daily exercise, sport or other knowledge
that related to physical human body. The question here is why university student need to take
physical education course and I agree that we must take physical education courses.
The first reason on student need to take P.E is because