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i) Some speaking activities There are many speaking activities in communicative class such as problem solving and group work. They are so important as to affect the success of the class. Therefore, these activities must be able to interest the students and lead them to take part in them actively. H.H.Stern introduced some communicative activities: “a. giving and following instructions b. information transfer c. information gap(techniques) d. jigsaw(techniques) e. problem solving f. informal talk tasks g. role-play, drama techniques”[23] Based on this category, there are some specific activities that present students with a rich variety of communicative events to react to. “(1) Self-introducing This is usually the first and the easiest step for beginners. Students may introduce themselves, their classmates, friends, past experiences, future plans etc. To make it interesting, the students may describe one of his classmates and ask others to guess whom he is.”[24] (2) Story-telling The students are asked to describe a series of pictures and then ask some students to link the sentences and make up a story .The story can also be made up by group work. (3) Topic-discussing The teacher may give a number of topics which the students are familiar with. The teacher divides the students into several groups and asks them to discuss with their partners. After several minutes, the leader of each group will give a speech in the front of the class. (4) Role-playing The teacher asks every group of students to rehearse a mini-play in turn every day and perform in the class. The play can be done in the beginning of the class to active the class atmosphere. (5) View-debating The class splits into two parts .The teacher presents a topic, and one part of the students take side in the viewpoint and another against it. At last, the teacher goes to summarize their viewpoint and revalues their performance. (iv) Participating in the activities In Wang Qiang’s opinion, Task—based teaching methods encourage the teacher to participate in students’ activities. The teacher should do something else once he/she has finished giving instruction and the activity has begun, for example, he /she can walk around the classroom, promotes and discusses with one or two groups as an ordinary participants. However, the teacher should change his or her role once he or she joins the students. He or she should not dominate or appear to be authoritative, though students regard it as a good chance to practice English with someone who speaks it better than themselves. [25] In communicative classroom, the teacher usually takes group-work activities as the main activity. He/She often divides the students into several groups and gives them a topic or some pictures to talk about with their partners. Then, as the students begin to discuss, the teacher comes down and joins with them as a participant. For example, the teacher asks the students to talk something about short plays, then he/she joins one group and discusses with the students in the group as followings: S1: I don’t know about plays .In my spare time, I only listen to the radio, read and watch TV. S2: I have watched some short plays, such as “Beautiful Friend” and “Hamlet”. S3: I like watching plays and I think I know something about it. Besides that, I have watched “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Fat of The Ball”. T: Watching short plays is one of my hobbies, I have also watched some famous plays