Wherever You Will Go – Notes

Activity types: gap fill, reordering.

Grammar : Future will , Second Conditional.

Time: 15 mins.

Note: This was The Calling’s first and, to date, most successful single. Released in September 2001, it was Number One on the U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 for 23 weeks. Guitarist Aaron Kamin, wrote this for his uncle after his aunt’s death.

1) Give each student a copy of the worksheet. Ask them to work in pairs to predict the answers to the first part.

2) Play the complete song. Students complete the worksheet.

3) Students check their answers in pairs or in groups.

4) Correct, and point out the use of Future will and Second Conditional (If I could, I would / If a great wave should fall, it would fall upon us all) Grammar note: the line “I’ll go wherever you will go”, so soon after the Second Conditional, may seem like a Mixed Conditional, but it is in fact a separate statement.

5) Play the song and sing together.

Complete lyrics:

So lately, been wonderin’ Who will be there to take my place Repeat Chorus When I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your face Runaway with my heart If a great wave should fall Runaway with my hope It would fall upon us all Runaway with my love And between the sand and stone Could you make it on your own I know now, just quite how My life and love might still go on Chorus: In your heart, in your mind If I could, then I would I'll stay with you for all of time I'll go wherever you will go Way up high or down low Repeat Chorus I'll go wherever you will go If I could turn back time And maybe, I'll find out I'll go wherever you will go The way to make it back someday If I could make you mine To watch you, to guide you I'll go wherever you will go Through the darkest of your days I'll go wherever you will go If a great wave should fall It would fall upon us all Well I hope there's someone out there Who can bring me back to you

This worksheet is to be used for educational purposes only Activity © Tune into English 2011 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Worksheet written by Prof. Anna Napoli, Trieste

 Wherever You Will Go - The Calling 

Fill in the gaps in the first two stanzas with the missing words: all – place – way – someone – someday - face – own – darkest – stone

So lately, I've been wonderin’ Who will be there to take my ______When I'm gone, you'll need love To light the shadows on your ______If a great wave should fall It would fall upon us ______And between the sand and ______Could you make it on your ______

Reorder the lines from the song to form the Chorus :

I'll go wherever you will go
Way up high or down low
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could, then I would

And maybe, I'll find out The ______to make it back ______To watch you, to guide you Through the ______of your days If a great wave should fall It would fall upon us all Well I hope there's ______out there Who can bring me back to you

(Repeat Chorus)

Complete the lines with the correct endings:

Runaway with my ______hope Runaway with my ______love Runaway with my ______heart

Complete the lines with the following rhyming words: time/mind now/how

I know______, just quite ______My life and love might still go on In your heart and your ______I'll stay with you for all of______

(Repeat Chorus)

Reorder the lines from the song:

I'll go wherever you will go
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could turn back time
I'll go wherever you will go
If I could make you mine

This worksheet is to be used for educational purposes only Activity © Tune into English 2011 – www.tuneintoenglish.com Worksheet written by Prof. Anna Napoli, Trieste