Activity-Based Teaching: An Accessible Device for Communication in English

English occupies a unique position in our country. The learning of English has become a growing necessity in the present-day scenario, all over the world, for the only reason that English is considered as the official link language in administration, society, business world, technology and most importantly in education, apart from holding the dignity of a library language. It can be expressed as a necessary-evil: necessary for its increasing importance when compared to native and other languages, and evil because it poses a constant threat of overpowering native languages. With the advantages surging an upward graphical curve, it cannot be denied that seeking to teaching and learning of English for language acquisition is now a matter of primary concern to  teachers as well as learners, especially for communication. At the primary , secondary and higher secondary levels, whatever be the medium of instruction, English is learned as a secondary language wherein vocabulary, structural and functional aspects are graded higher than communication. At the college level, the need for communication becomes a requisite as English turns to be the only means of instruction. Undergraduates, especially students from rural backgrounds and native medium, are desperately on the lookout for feasible devices to learn and communicate in English. This paper proposes to highlight the significance of activity-based teaching implemented for students at the undergraduate level, who lack the courage and confidence to communicate in English and hence remain low in the ranking scale.