These materials are available for anyone to use free of charge. It would be nice if you credited Bridge For Pleasure, but it's not mandatory.
It would be great to hear how you get on with it, and if you have any suggestions.

bridgeforpleasure@gmail.com

This scheme was developed for teaching duplicate bridge face to face in a class/bridge room.
However, during Covid, it started being adapted for use online.

It's all been used many times over many years, but there are still occasional errors. Please let me know.

Most of the materials are PDF documents.
However, PBN files containing the deals used in each lesson/seminar are being added.
There are also a few Word documents containing text you will edit to suit your needs.

Download PDFs, PBNs or Word documents by "right clicking" on the bookmark, selecting "save link as" and then choosing the folder on your device where you want to put them.

I can send dlm or lin versions of any deal (or pbn where it hasn't been loaded yet) on request.

Bridge 1 Getting Started 

Ten consecutive lessons for absolute beginners. Originally designed for Face to Face, notes added for online delivery using materials from No Fear Bridge. 

Goal is to prepare learners to take part in themed novice supervised play.

Bridge 2 Building Your Skills

Ten further consecutive lessons on the most commonly used bidding methods and card play skills.

Goal is to prepare learners to take part in gentle competition.

Bridge 3 Taking Acol Further

Ten more consecutive lessons introducing transfers and the losing trick count and methods for less common situations such as stronger hands, slam seeking, pre-empts.

Advanced Bidding  Uncontested Auctions

Individual seminars to be selected as suits the situation. Click above for topics.

Advanced Competitive Bidding

Individual seminars to be selected as suits the situation. Click above for topics.

Advanced Card Play

Individual seminars to be selected as suits the situation. Click above for topics.

Practice

Sets of boards to practice topics. 

New bridge players need lots of practice.

Lessons are designed to introduce new ideas and skills. Teachers will use dissertation, demonstration, question and answer and any other suitable method to introduce new material. Some practice by students in lessons is essential, and lessons may be most effective if up to half the time is spent by students playing.

If at all possible, even more practice, of already introduced topics, will help students build skills, fact memory and knowledge.

The suggested approach to themed practice is as follows (do as much of it as you can!):

• choose a theme for the practice
• use set boards designed to illustrate and exercise the theme. You will typically need four-five boards for each hour you plan to play. The first time any group plays you will find out their pace. It's better to have fewer boards than too many. If there are too many you will be tempted to push the pace beyond the players ability to follow. If you have slightly too few, you can have a "wrap up" and take questions. This is often the best learning part!
• deal as many sets of boards as you can, up to a set per table, so that players are not distracted by moving boards around and so that players can play the boards in order, and therefore generally the same boards at each table at one time. This makes life easier for the helpers, especially if they have more than one table to look after.
• recruit as many helpers, up to one per table, as you can so that the players have lots of support, can ask questions, can have the outcome explained to them
• print one copy of a commentary explaining the expected play for each helper. Allow helpers to add their own views. 
• score the results, not to have a competition, but so that players can see their results in the context of other results. You can use a one round barometer movement.
• load the results to a web site so that the players can check what happened after the event.
• send the players a copy of notes on the topic to reinforce learning.

This is the very best software for creating, editing, checking, sorting and renumbering themed sets of hands for lessons or practice. it creates deal sets in Portable Bridge Notation (PBN) form.

You can produce  hand reports or much fuller commentaries containing recommended auctions, leads and card play. You can produce files for dealing machines for physical cards. You can produce files for loading to online platforms such as RealBridge.

There are now features to allow you to preset an auction, and even the opening lead, to ensure practice of card play without variation in the auction.

There is a single first time fee to use the software and no maintenance charge. The software is maintained and developed regularly.You can have a free thirty day trial. At the time of writing the cost is $25.

Here's a movement for ten players. The two tables share the boards, so your sitting out pair can watch the play at a table. 

2.5 Table Movement.pdf

Online, there's a complete course on MiniBridge, with 80 practice hands, without a requirement to provide personal details.

As a teacher you can use it, by sharing your screen in an online meeting, to provide lessons introducing newbies to bridge.

Or, you could direct your learners to this course and leave them to introduce themselves to bridge. This is the approach that a major U3A initiative is taking.Unlike other "free" online lesson offers, you do not have to worry that they will be recruited to other teachers or clubs.

It's provided by No Fear Bridge. Check it out here:

https://www.nofearbridge.co.uk/minibridge/