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knowledge is far from daily oral English, which turns out to be a misunderstanding. At the text, they can learn some basic sentence structures that they need to master and communicative phrases that are frequent to be used in daily life. As long as they work diligently and apply cleverly, they will benefit from more or less. “For example, College English Course, published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, systematically provides them with many dialogue examples in different situations, but students have to learn to apply according to context.”[21] From broad sense speaking, besides mastering the above skills of asking questions, students also need to develop communicative strategies to promote more efficient communication. Now, some common communicative strategies will be introduced. . Firstly, respond to the other party positively. It is conversational politeness to reply to counterpart actively and express feelings. A participant may use a variety of pause word, reply and exclamation to show he is listening to counterpart attentively. The words like “Yeah”, “Good”, “Uhuh”, “How interesting!” can be used to suggest praise, agreement and echo separately; these words like “Wow”, “My goodness”, “Really?”, “How strange!” can be used to show amazement or incredulity; these sentences “Pardon?”, “What did you say?” are utilized to ask others to repeat; these sentences that “You mean…?”, “So you are saying that…?”, “If I have understood correctly, …” [22] are utilized to check if he understands other’s meaning. Effective response makes conversation natural and promotes both parties to communicate further, thus achieves communicative purpose. Secondly, employ hesitation filler properly. Sometimes a speaker adds some of it like “Um”, “Well”, “You know”, “Let me see” to prolong his thinking to avoid awkwardness when he finds that he has nothing to say abruptly faced with others. Of course, the employment of it has its limit. Frequent utilization makes an impression that the speaker lacks self-confidence. Thirdly, employ a roundabout strategy. It refers to expressing the speaker’s idea in a roundabout way that is not out of a special purpose but a flexible means. It often happened in the following three situations: ① When the speaker meets communicative barrier so that he can not find suitable words to express his idea; ② When the speaker doesn’t know how to express his opinion ; ③ When the speaker can not think of a certain sentence structure for the moment to state his idea. I advocate he makes a positive effort to use this strategy rather than to escape because it helps to improve oral English. It can be classified into two categories. One is by explanation. When a speaker has no idea about an English word accordingly, he can use a sentence to express the same meaning. For example: (24) “we saw them out of the … the room where you keep the car.”[23] He can’t think of the word: garage, so he describes it with a sentence; the other is by synonym. There are a lot of synonyms in English that offer the speaker many choices. Fourthly, use an evasive tactic. For instance, a learner doesn’t well master attribute clause, so he will use two simple sentences instead. He won’t say “that’s the building where I live” but say “that is my building; I live there.”[24]This tactic is called passive evasive tactic because the speaker uses it when he is not very sure of a sentence structure or is eager to avoid making a mistake. There is als