Teaching English For Communication——A Brief Discussion of Some Communication Activities

What do we teach English for? For Language itself? Definitely not. Language is a means of communication. So it is no good teaching English all about its grammar rules and long lists of words without using it in real communication. Very often we have many students,who bave studied English for 6—10 years and acquired a vocabulary of thousands of individual words and a good mastery of hundreds of grammar rules but can not use them as a means of communication.