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d behavior aspects. Krashen (1987) and other second language acquisition theorists typically stress that language learning comes about through using language communicatively. Littlewood (1981) distinguishes activities between "functional communication activities" and "social interaction activities". Functional communication activities include such tasks as comparing sets of pictures, noting similarities and differences etc, social interaction activities includes conversation, discussion session, role plays, debates etc. Communicative activities are possible and feasible to oral class teaching. The important thing is to design suitable activities. The most crucial one might be the group- work, pair-work and individual activities. Through communication learners discuss on Chapter Six Communicative Activities Designe试户r Oral Class Interaction what the message would be about by exchanging their prior background knowledge. One can get hints from his companion to activate his existed schemata, and vice versa, this activated schema can be transferred to others through discussion. To those who already have some relevant background knowledge on a certain topic, this discussion can enlarge their existed schemata. It is especially useful and helpful for those students who have no or less relevant prior background knowledge. The communicative activities provide them with opportunities to gain some to construct relevant schemata which will enable them to follow the message later. 6.1 Individual Task Individual task is mainly used to train learners' capability to organize orally certain materials they have read or pictures they have seen. It is a good way to check individual's ability to use language. Through this task, the teacher can find many problems learners have. Here is the example. 6.1.1 Retelling the Story First of all, learners are given pieces of reading materials as following. Learners are required to finish reading it within limited time (3-4 minutes). A Quarrel Mike could see there was going to be trouble. He and his girlfriend, Glenda, had had a bitter quarrel only the week before because he had been late for a dinner-date. He was sure it was goingto happen again. He was attending a Teachers' Union meeting at school. It was already 8 o'clock in the evening and he was supposed to meet Glenda at 8:15 in front of a cinema in the center of town, at least 10 minutes' drive away, The meeting, which had been called suddenly that afternoon, was obviously not going to end soon. Since Glenda had no phone, there had been no way of contacting her. "Oh, my God," he thought to himself. "How am I going to get out of this damned thing?" He looked at his watch again and tried to look interested in the discussion about new salary scales. Glenda got to the cinema just before 8:15. She was a nurse and had to work long hours at the hospital, so she did not like to waste what little free time she had. That was why she always got-angry whenever Mike was not punctual. Mike was getting more and more impatient. At 8:05 he suddenly stood up and said, "I'm terribly sorry but I've got an appointment." Then he grabbed his coat, dashed to his car and drove away. Then things really became difficult. First of all, traffic was very heavy and the main roads were jammed. To make matters worse, the cinema was up a one-way street. But worse of all, there was nowhere to park. Finally he left the car in