Structure drills follow an organized plan. Narrative selections and new cultural materials are introduced. A wide variety of oral comprehension and substitution drills are used with a tape for each chapter. Writing is introduced in the form of copied materials with frequent dictation exercises of selections already familiar to the student. Questions and answers are written following short reading selections.
Students also write workbook exercises, which reinforce vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Some short paragraph writing is done. Structure drills are continued and expanded, but they are now based on model sentences from the text instead of dialogues. There is more reading aloud of new material after the teacher has read it aloud first. New words are first presented orally. Reading is now given as homework for comprehension without translation, if possible.