We could have had it all

Lesson Plan

Level: Intermediate

Skill: Speaking & Listening

Grammar point: Modal verbs in the past

Time: 20 minutes

Material needed: board, marker, extracts of songs 

Procedure:

Give sts the following extracts and ask them to think of the context in which they are said. Allow creativity.

a. ... for sth I might have said 

b. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world 

c. I shouldn’t have let you go 

d. I should have changed that stupid lock. I should have made you leave your keys 

e. I must have died alone 

f. We could have had it all.

They are all extracts from songs: 

a. "Don't be cruel" Elvis Presley

b. "I woudn't have missed it for the world" Ronnie Mislap

c. "One more time" Britney Spears

d. "I will survive" Gloria Gaynor

e. " The man who sold the world" David Bowie/Nirvana

f. "Rolling in the deep" Adele

Listen to the songs.

Check if the contexts they have thought of are the same as in the songs.

Follow-up: Students bring their own choice of songs containing that grammatical structure: modal verbs + have + past participle

Note: I have used audacity to create an audio file with little extracts of the songs (in a different order). With it I delivered an extra activity in which students had to listen to the songs and put the extracts in the order they hear them.

E-mail me and I'll be glad to send the file to you.

lacasonadelsurelt@hotmail.com

Teacher: Ana Cabral