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Audio-oral (lingual) method:

From the 40's:

• Foreign Language Learning is a process of mechanical habit formation. Soldiers in the Second World War needed to be understood between them. This kind of learning is based in repetition. 
• Listening and reading after the teacher: repeat after me. 
• Use of Drills: mechanical oral and exercises. 
• Teacher-centred.
• Grouping of students: group, pairs... Thanks to technological advances in the Second World War, they had a progression. 
• Language laboratory. New technology caught publishers and text-book writers unprepared. 
• Prevent errors as they can be remembered. You should give the students activities for them to acquire the "correct pronunciation".

"Do not think! Just repeat, repeat, repeat!"

Summing up:

• They may be really good activities for reforcement, warming up or ice breaker.