TP ENGLISH

LEVEL 8

TEACHER: Natalia Bron

STUDENT: Agustín Mantesi.
Socio-community intervention project:

In this project I'm going to talk about the topic chosen for my TIF, which is about a
socio-community intervention project. This project aims to provide table tennis training
classes in a public space in the municipality of Lomas de Zamora. In order to get to know the
objective of this project I first need to explain briefly what is this about.

Table tennis or ping pong, is a racket sport played between two players or couples of it. This
sport is also called colloquially or informally "ping pong" and it emerged in 1902 by Arnold
Parker, because of the sound it produced when the ball, paddle and table hit. In 1926 ITTF
(International Table Tennis Federation) was established and organized the first world
championship. It has been an Olympic sport since the 1988 Seoul Games.

This sport is proposed as a means to generate the development of the different

corresponding motor skills, as well as to generate that recreational space that people can
enjoy. The goal is to create a space with free access to table tennis where people from the
municipality of Lomas de Zamora can take classes in this sport with in a green space, so
that people interested in learning about the sport can practice. This arises from my personal
experience as a federated table tennis player for ten years, with the aim that the sport
reaches more people and they can enjoy it.