LESSON PLAN: If you ever...

Bruno Mars' You can count on me

I. GENERAL INFORMATION

Class : Escuela Secundaria Obligatoria (2nd grade – A2)

Theme : If you ever... Bruno Mars' You can count on me
Time : 55 minutes
Number of students : 30

II. OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES:

The following are the objectives of this planning:

 To expose students to the basic structure of the first conditional grammatical structure
through a popular pop song (motivational pre-learning).

 To understand genuine English texts that contain first conditional.

At the end of this class students will:

 know basic structure of the first conditional

 use first conditional to produce simple statements about future possibilities

III. INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE

Previous knowledge: This class is the follow-up to the introduction of the zero conditional.

Sequence:

 Warm-up activity (5') Tell us 10 reasons all people need friends (collective)
 1st listening of Bruno Mars' You can count on me from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JNtAtGGNRU (3' 13'')
 Comprehension activity 1: write as many words you can remember (5')
 Comprehension activity 2: what do you think is the song about – class discussion (5')
 2nd listening of Bruno Mars' You can count on me from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgYTcMQG96A (3' 13'')
  Activity 3: Lyrics with gaps. Try to think of words that could fill the gaps.
Brainstorming (6')
 Teacher's instruction: explanation of the first conditional structure with the use of the
first phrase from the lyrics (5')
 Activity 4: listen to the song for the fourth time and try to fill in the rest of the gaps
(3' 13'')
 Last listening (video with lyrics). Check if your gaps are filled correctly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYXItns2ik (4')
 Activity 5: In pairs, finish sentences about friendship. Student A will finish the first
part and Student B will finish the second part of the conditional sentence.
If you ever ..., I will … Finish at least 5 sentences and write them down in your
notebooks. (10')

IV. METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGIES

Method:

Techniques: Brainstorming, Working in pairs, Involving students with

genuine popular culture material

Materials: Projector and screen, 30 lyrics with gaps fill-in sheets

Evaluation: The teacher will correct the written activity in the notebooks

V. BASIC CONTENT

Grammar: First Conditional to express future possibilities

Lexical items: vocabulary related to friendship, some phrasal verbs

VI. EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Transversal content: Although the activities proposed in this class aim to be

motivational through entertainment, the theme of friendship is closely related to the civic and
moral values.

Fundamental capacities:
Area capacities:

Listening & Speaking: The entire lesson plan design relies strongly on oral
comprehension (activities 1, 3 and 4) and to some extent on oral expression (warm-up,
activities 2 and 5). Students interaction of a minimum quality is essential in order to
accomplish the goal of the class.

Reading: Each student will perform an individual reading

comprehension task (the lyrics with gaps sheet). Although the reading comprehension
task is not an extensive one, the reading material is a genuine English text, a sample of a
language used in a popular culture.

Writing: Activity 5 puts into practice and assesses student's

understanding of the grammatical structures learned during this class.

VII. CONCLUSIONS

With this proposal we aim to present some grammatical structures to the EFL students in a
funny and accessible way.

WEBOGRAPHY

Youtube Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JNtAtGGNRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JNtAtGGNRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYXItns2ik