A program of dialogues and drills, first presented orally, is continued throughout the year. The situations in the dialogues are designed to have as much cultural significance as possible. Structure drills follow an organized plan. 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.
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. Questions to determine reading comprehension are essential.