THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD Experience: Inside the class the students listen with attention at the teacher, expecting to start the class and they already know that they are going to repeat and memorize a dialogue. The teacher starts by playing a dialogue between 2 friends meeting, he acts is he were both, always using mimics and speaking loud and clear, after ending the dialogue the teacher must repeat the dialogue once again to make things clear for his students. SALLY: Good morning, Bill. BILL: Good morning, Sally. SALLY: How are you? BILL: Fine, thanks. And you? SALLY: Fine. Where are you going? BILL: I’m going to the post office. SALLY: I am, too. Shall we go together? BILL: Sure. Let’s go. Then the teacher makes the whole class repeat each phrase of the dialogue, then she uses drills to makes things even clearer (expansion drill) by making them repeat a key phrase of the dialogue by the end to the start of the sentence., backwards. After that first