It proposes that language teaching should develop communicative competence, which prepares the learners with a potential ability to deal with unpredictable, authentic communicative situations. Because of the foreign language learning environment in China, students learn English under a tutored condition in classrooms. The lack of a natural language environment is a big handicap. Speak Out provides ample student- centered speaking opportunities for the students to interact with one another in English. So through talking about a text, some important events in American life and their own personal experience, students practice the use of English for meaningful communication in the classroom.
Conclusion Speak Out is a fluency-based activity, which can upgrade students' oral performance.
It provides sufficient opportunities for each student to use oral English in both pre- communicative and communicative contexts. The three procedures are structured to assist and stimulate active participation from all the students. Such active meaningful participation fosters a positive classroom spirit, which lowers the affective filter. Leng Hui teaches English at the Liaoning Normal University, Peoples. Republic. of China.