Earlier ‘Grammar Translation’ method was used in the class room. This method emphasizes on teaching of rules of language through translation from mother tongue to a target language and vice-versa. Practice to use a language was provided through translation and explanation of the rules of grammatical items needed for translation. As teaching of classical languages was the main and not fluency, so this method employed bilingualism. Contrary to Grammar-Translation Method, Direct Method abolished the use of mother tongue altogether from the English Language Teaching class-rooms. It also banished teaching of grammar rules in isolation which seems pedantic and does not lead to fluency in the use of language. Structural Linguistics that came into vogue in the first half of the 20th century made some modifications in the Direct Method. It regards language as a highly structured system in which language items are arranged in a hierarchy. It advocates teaching of language items in a graded manner through drilling in meaningful situations. The Oral Approach or Situational Language Teaching which was developed between 1930 to 1960 by British Linguists Harold Palmer and A.S. Hornby necessitates the presentation of all language items in ‘situations’. It requires contextualization of the language items and their practice. Further modifications in this approach paved the way for communicative language teaching. Transformation Generative Linguistics that came into existence in the second half of the 20thcentury rejected Structuralist’s premise of language learning as repetition and drilling. It regards (Chomsky1957) language learning as a cognitive activity. When children are exposed to language, they internalize the rules of language and develop intuitive knowledge which enables them to create infinite number of sentences. All the aforementioned approaches confined themselves to the teaching of rules or rules of usage directly or indirectly. Hymes(1972) discovered this fallacy in Chomsky and regards language learning as an ability to use language appropriately in various communicative situations to convey meanings. Hymes’ criticism of Chomsky initiated the movement of communicative language teaching that regards communicative competence as the aim of language teaching than the earlier approaches which stopped at structural or grammatical competence. The present paper is an attempt to explore the application and viability of the situational approach in teaching of grammar.