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The Beatles - If I Fell in Love With You - Conditionals

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The Beatles - If I Fell in Love With You - Conditionals

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Song Activity “If I fell”

The Beatles (Lennon & McCartney)


Student: _________________ Teacher: ______________ Date: ________
BEFORE YOU LISTEN
SONG INFO: Read this paragraph about the song:
"If I Fell" is a song by The Beatles which first appeared on the 1964 UK
album A Hard Day's Night and the US compilation album Something New.
Written primarily by John Lennon with help from Paul McCartney, the
song is notable for its unusual structure. Lennon played acoustic guitar
and sang, McCartney played bass and sang, George Harrison plucked out
single notes on electric guitar, and Ringo Starr played drums. This was also
Kurt Cobain's favourite Beatles song, and was played by Nirvana whenever
there were technical problems at their concerts."If I Fell" was a part of
The Beatles repertoire during The Beatles' US and Canadian tour in 1964.
The group typically performed the song faster than the studio version, and
Lennon and McCartney often sang it with barely suppressed laughter.

AS YOU LISTEN: listen to the song and sing along!


If I fell in love with you If I love you too oh please
would you promise to be true don't hurt my pride like her
and help me understand
'cause I've been in love before
and I found that love was more 'cause I couldn't stand the pain
than just holding hands and I would be sad If our new love was in vain

If I give my heart to you


I must be sure so I hope you see that I
from the very start would love to love you
that you would love me more than her and that she will cry
when she learns we are two
If I trust in you oh please If I fell in love with you
don't run and hide

 Conditional statements (IF-clauses) are sentences that have a condition and a result, if the
condition happens or is true.
TASK 1: Find in the lyrics if clauses that are a combination of IF + a present tense verb. Write the
IF-clauses (the first part of the sentence) in the space below:

IF + present tense clauses


_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________

 Good job! Now try and answer the following questions:


1. In the clauses in Task 1, is the author speaking of an imaginary situation or a possible situation?
2. Is the situation in the past, present or future?
3. What might happen if the person gives his/her heart?
4. What might happen if the person trusts in his/her love?
5. What does the author asks his/her love to do if this person loves his/her too?
6. What verb form is used in the situation described in 4 and 5? Is it a present tense form or a (negative)
imperative form? How do you know?
7. What verb forms can be used with IF + present tense clauses?
8. How are these kind of clauses called?

© By Angelo Freire, 2020. No unauthorized copy. Source: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia , available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Fell

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