"Crazy Claps" Warm Up Activity by Aytek Yıldız

[@milanjelicic5346]

A-mazing! My kids loved it! P.s this is a warmer game, so you do it at the very beginning of the class to get the students ready for the actual class (learning) Not all games are for learning the targeted language or vocabulary, sometimes you just need to have fun! Thanks for sharing, cheers 🍻

[@Singwithsandra]

It's a fun game to practice dynamics! Thanks!

[@ericl.massey7254]

1:09 3:04 (clapping loudly)

[@Ana-ws4lh]

It is a very nice game but to really practice the language, i suggest that the one who looses should say something in Englush or Spanish, whatever the language they are learning. Ex. The teacher shows a flash card and the student makes a sentences, instead of saying he or she is out.

[@LizafromWhere]

yes I can't understand the paedagogic reason behind this either. Warm ups should be fun but also about English not wasting time. Parents pay a fortune for their children to learn

[@mjlow-key5298]

Leeza Silverman So long as it prepares the students for the lesson then it's a warm up. There is always a lot more these kids have to grasp during the course of the lesson and therefore there is a need to get them refresh their minds.

[@mjlow-key5298]

Leeza Silverman Mind you learning a second language is not a joke!, so, as a teacher you have to ensure that the kids have fun throughout.

[@Threebamboos]

I agree with you, I teach, I always think of those parents who put their child to language school to study and learn English. Each and every game in the class should be related to the topic or lesson

[@jaycampbell6402]

Suggestions for improvements are nice and can always help, but insisting on such improvements, in this case, would only betray an ignorance of childrens' cognitive development. This is a brilliant way to help children with transitions in the classroom. It develops an intrinsic desire of the student to transition from talkative modes needed to support games towards silent modes needed to support intellectual work in class. He is helping the students develop a natural desire to tune in to each other and to the teacher as well as to see that there are times when it is rewarding to be quiet and focused. To demand a pedagogical explication of all the other benefits of this activity is the laziness of an arm-chair general. This is the reason schools are so soul-numbing and crushingly dry for so many students; a teacher comes up with an engaging way to help students transition, tune in, experience the vocabulary and the pedants want the teacher to document, explicate and prove the pedagogical points of everything being done. I know this is how it works, I spent hours typing up proofs of how my mathematical activities benefited students to please pedantic administrators. I know the documentation itself did nothing to help students.

[@safakulutasl3741]

Tebrikler hocam. New style teacher...

[@moussad2431]

Greetings from China! I loved this video! Thanks for sharing!

[@FireflyEnglish]

You are very welcome! :)

[@AussieDebb]

fgdddi dnd

[@injujuan8993]

This game is a lot of fun! Brilliant kids and an awesome teacher 😁👍🤩😍

[@jennyhercules]

This game looks so cool! I will try it with my kids!

[@christinakapareliotis7926]

This game is really used in music class to teach the element of dynamics. Differentiating between loud and soft.

[@FireflyEnglish]

Do you mean that you have tried that out in your class?

[@sofiamorales9586]

Great idea! Thanks :)

[@haibarasan6290]

thanks a lot😍😍😍😍😍i will use it with my students

[@FireflyEnglish]

You are welcome. Make most of it! :)

[@msttmstt5600]

Excellent effort made. Y teacher

[@FireflyEnglish]

Thank you.👍

[@msttmstt5600]

M impressed u r welcome

[@PATHSHALA.1]

SUPERB.

[@FireflyEnglish]

Thank you.

[@ilf1992]

Teachers and students are having fun within. Children are seeming to enjoy the clapping at the moment. Teacher is advertising some clapping things.

[@delia5147]

Very good! excelent game

[@radk3124]

genious. I love it!!! Great job dear colleague :-)

[@hagoluegoaprendo]

Love it!!!

[@FireflyEnglish]

Thank you. Feel free to share with your colleagues. 🙂👍

[@stephenthompson7213]

Why is the logo for Firefly English a ladybug?

[@FireflyEnglish]

That's my old logo which has a totally different meaning in my native language. I haven't updated yet.

[@ghosounrahhal9662]

great job...many thanks

[@chichilisa5936]

Thanks

[@24msti]

Waooo what a activity ... Thanks .

[@amnaimtiaz8533]

I really appreciate your activity but I just wanted to know it's objective??

[@FireflyEnglish]

I use this activity mainly as an attention grabber. Whenever they are a bit distracted, I start doing it and one or two students catch it and in 30 seconds after the "brain break" we can go back to what we are supposed to do . I hope this helps. 👍😊

[@dmha1655]

Love this!

[@adventurousdaydreamer]

I love this, I am going to try it out!

[@poojathakre124]

wow children are really enjoying

[@renatofigueroa8767]

Thank u so much!!!! :)

[@FireflyEnglish]

You are welcome. :)

[@sapahanow2567]

I like it games thank you!

[@FireflyEnglish]

My pleasure. I hope it works for your class.

[@jennymaritzachamorrochamor5488]

Well, the only thing I am afraid of is if they start crying, and whistle instead of clapping, but I would try this activity

[@didiwq9588]

Nice I love it 😍

[@rashaamin8460]

أكاديمية الهدي للغات الهدي 💒

[@FireflyEnglish]

Sorry ma'am, I don't speak Arabic. If you leave your comment in English, I may help you.

[@Rose_xc90]

That's nice..Is it a private school?

[@EnglishTeachingGamesByMuxi]

Nice warmups mate! don't understand why you standing at back.

[@telugubidda00786]

Exactly..even I don like it.....but so it can be recorded him from front.

[@FireflyEnglish]

Sorry for the late respond. My intention is to keep the kids focused by walking around the class.. I have two main aims here. The first one is Lowering the Affective Filter and the second one is using this small warm up during the year as an attention grabber.

[@EnglishTeachingGamesByMuxi]

@@FireflyEnglish Great.. looking forward for some more good ideas. keep it up

[@saidaeljeni848]

I love it so much

[@pearllagrito2179]

Phenomenal 🤩

[@shemnath6206]

Yes

[@mr.knowledge8719]

Good Game! Greetings from Bulgaria! :)

[@himaarora9045]

Very Interesting!

[@nadafarouk2892]

😊😊😊

[@PrajaktPande]

Awesome dear

[@PrajaktPande]

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[@simlisimge3413]

Sir bizede oynatmıştınız

[@gsmehmet96]

tebrik ederim cok iyi olmuş

[@sumimasen92]

I guess you are just using TPR here and it's fun. However I can't really understand what's going on apart from clapping. What is your objective ?

[@Bahar12369]

Sakura Sake i think his objective is to talk in english when giving instructions before the game and during the game. And also he is making the lesson enjoyable.

[@carpediem1569]

It's called warm up...

[@learningisfunwithmeenakshi3679]

👍👍👍👍

[@teachingpractices795]

What is the learning objective here?

[@Rose_xc90]

I don't think there has to be an objective...This is just a warm up activity

[@emmanuelleconway3414]

I think this would be a great exercise to help their concentration. You can see at the beginning of the class they are more subdued then at the end...When the kids come to my class they can be a bit lethargic and i need to wake them up...I

[@SunClub2018]

Teaching Practices agree

[@stringsmandela5219]

nice, you good bro

[@sharaddahal6502]

I wish to be child again.

[@sm8873]

Bizim sınıf 50 kişi gel de yap iste

[@FireflyEnglish]

Sınıfın sayısı çok önemli değil aslında. Bu "attention grabber" olarak yıl içinde kullanılıyor. Bir öğrenci farkedip diğerleri de başlayınca çok güzel olabiliyor.

[@raghunathpujari6838]

I am going to be a good day

[@olgakiryanova9781]

Excellent game

[@susanam5677]

You really need to move away from that "English-only" mentality!!! It's 2018! You need to build on your students' already-existing linguistic resource rather than prohibiting them to use their first language in class!

[@rpasseau]

Maybe you're right in some specific pedagogy. But I only have good results teaching my students English if they don't use their mother language in class. "If you want to learn how to dance, you need to dance, even if it's awkward at the beginning."