The document discusses communicative language teaching and information gap activities. Communicative language teaching focuses on meaningful communication as the goal of classroom activities. Some key characteristics include a focus on oral work, pair and group work, and using the target language for meaningful activities. Information gap activities are useful because they require students to ask each other questions to complete a task, engaging all students and motivating them to use the target language. Examples of information gap activities provided are fill in the chart, same and different, twenty questions, and picture dictation.