CHAPTER 2 STARTING OUT The author explains the importance about the teacher should use all the

tools to teach, not only grammar or a lot of vocabulary. Instead, it is also important to realize that someone who is learning a language needs far more than in the head knowledge of grammar and vocabulary in order to be able to use language in a proper way. We have five language systems which are different ways of looking at the same thing. Phonology Lexis Grammar Function Discourse. As a teacher we need to decide in which system we are going to offer our learners information about. Also, there are language skills; speaking, writing, reading and listening. Lessons need to be planned to give students opportunities to practice and improve their language skills. The author explains that in the past teaching was only concentrated on grammar and vocabulary. Nowadays, most interesting is expressed in work on all language systems and skills, particularly emphasizing listening and speaking, because the purpose of learning a language is usually to enable you to take part in exchanges of information: talking with friends, reading instructions on a packet of food, writing a note to a colleague, etc. When we talk about method what is a way of teaching, we need to consider that there are many methods. For instance: the most traditional method, the audioLingual method based on theory or the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) or communicative approach (CA). As a conclusion, many teachers nowadays would think that they do not follow a single method. Teachers do not want to take someone elses prescriptions into class and apply them. The process of choosing items from a range of methods and constructing a colleague methodology is sometimes known as principal eclecticism.