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HAND-CLAP GAMES

What are Hand-clap games?

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Medios de comunicación social. Geralt. Pixabay. CC0

Hand-clap games are a type of traditional game, usually cooperative, that involve two or more people clapping their hands to a rhyming chant. Sometimes they involve touching some parts of the body with your hands or even using objects.

In this lesson you will learn and play some of them.

  • Do you know any examples?
  • Is there a similar game in your language?
  • Do you like this type of games?

A SAILOR WENT TO SEA

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Complete the gaps while listening to the song.

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea. Active Music. Youtube (Accessed on 24/06/2022).

A went to sea , sea, sea

To see what he could sea, sea, sea

But all that he could sea, sea, sea

Was the of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

 

A sailor went to chop, chop, chop

To what he could chop , chop, chop

But all that he could chop, chop, chop

the bottom of the deep blue chop, chop, chop

 

A sailor to knee, knee, knee

To see what he knee, knee, knee

But all that he could knee, knee, knee

Was the bottom of the blue knee, knee, knee

 

A sailor went to , chop , knee

To see what he could sea, , knee

But all that he could sea, chop,

Was the bottom of the deep sea , chop, knee

 

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DOWN, DOWN BABY

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Complete the gaps while listening to the song.

Learn FUN hand clapping game "Down Down Baby". KSquared. Youtube (Accessed on 24/06/2022).

Down, down,
Down, down the
Sweet, , baby 
I’ll never let you go
Shimmy, Shimmy
Shimmy, pow
Shimmy, Shimmy cocoa pop
Shimmy, Shimmy pow!

I like
I like
I like another
And he me
Up and and side to side
All around and it little ride
P-O-P spells !

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MISS MARY MACK

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Complete the gaps while listening to the song.

Father and Daughter - Miss Mary Mack clap.  Andre' Talley. Youtube (Accessed on 24/06/2022).




  • Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
  • All dressed in black, black, black.
  • With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
  • All down her back, back, back.
  • She asked her mother, mother, mother
  • For 50 cents, cents, cents.
  • To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
  • Jump over the fence, fence, fence.
  • They jumped so high, high, high
  • They reached the sky, sky, sky.
  • And they didn't come back, back, back
  • 'Til the 4th of July, ly, ly.

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Now, it's your go! Play and sing with your partner!

YOUR OWN HAND-CLAP GAME

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In your groups, choose one of the previous hand-clap lyrics and write a different a rhythm for them.

Remember to pay attention to the stressed syllable in the word, the stress must go with the figure.

Then, open the Musescore application and create music for the chosen rhythm.

Finally, write the lyrics in the score. Save it in your group's folder.

This is an example:


 

THE CUP GAME

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Before Anna Kendrick’s song “Cups”, there was the cup game. It is a type of hand game played with cups. It includes the same rhythm as in the song, but it is a competitive game played in group. Each person plays the rhythm and passes down the cup to the next player. If you lose the rhythm at your turn, you’re out!

Watch the following video and try to imitate it with your group. 

Eline K, Amber W en Mahera M - The Cup Game. GC De Rinck. Youtube (Accessed on 24/06/2022).