Review grammar through a song

Topic principal

Plan your activities

1. Introduces the
activity with an
ice breaker to get
your Ss attention.

2. Make teams. Deliver
the lyric in stripes of
paper to each team.
Play the song twice for the
teams to unscramble and
order the stripes.

3. Provide Ss with
the complete lyric and
elicit examples in the lyric
of 1st conditional sentences.

Count on MeBruno Mars If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the seaI'll sail the world to find youIf you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see I'll be the light to guide youFind out what we're made ofWhen we are called to help our friends in need You can count on me like one, two, threeI'll be there and I know when I need itI can count on you like four, three, twoYou'll be thereCause that's what friends are suppose to doOh, yeah(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)(Yeah, yeah) If you tossing and you turning and you just can't fall asleep I'll sing a song beside youAnd if you ever forget how much you really mean to meEveryday I will remind you OhFind out what we're made ofWhen we are called to help our friends in need You can count on me like one, two, threeI'll be thereAnd I know when I need itI can count on you like four, three, twoYou'll be thereCause that's what friends are suppose to doOh, yeah(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)(Yeah, yeah) You'll always have my shoulder when you cryI'll never let go, never say good bye You know you can count on me like one, two, threeI'll be thereAnd I know when I need itI can count on you like four, three, twoAnd you'll be there'Cause that's what friends are suppose to doOh, yeah(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)(Ooh ooh ooh uh uh)You can count on me, 'cause I can count on you

4. Elicit the grammatical
structure and individual examples.

5. Give any extra explanation
needed to clarify any doubt. To
reinforce, provide Ss with one clause
for them to complement it with an
appropriate one.

6. Listen to the song again
motivating Ss to sing along.
To end the activity you could
use the karaoke version
of the song.

Set the objective

By the end of the
lesson Ss will be
able to identify and
use the structure of
the 1st conditional.

Choose the song

Count on me by Bruno Mars

Have in mind the song must be in accordance of the Ss level and easy for them to pronounce.