Text-centered communicative situations:
There is also a scope for creating interesting situations in the class room for providing practice in the use of some grammatical items from the text taught for the purpose of reading comprehension. From the primary to under graduate level, for all the classes a text book is prescribed. The text contains some lessons – essays and poems for reading comprehension. Contents from the lessons from the text may also be used for creating situations and activities in order to provide practice in the use of grammatical items. However, the situations created from the content given in the text should not be directly copied from the prescribed text but should be modified to create communicative activities in the class room. For example, Nissim Ezekiel’s poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’ (prescribed for B.A. III rd Semester students in M.P.) can be fruitfully used for teaching ‘May’ as a Modal Auxiliary. Ezekiel in the poem has repeatedly used ‘may’ to express desire or wish.