This article outlines and reflects on five adjustments made over the course of a year to the author’s ‘three-block’ lesson method introduced in Howell (2015). The five adjustments are: resequencing of the activity blocks; reduction in the number of activities; colorization of the handouts; use of expansion drills; and increase in L1 input. In addition, a supplementation of the method using popular songs is presented, exemplified by the musical film ‘West Side Story’.