This "concepts" guide contains explanations and justifications of learning activities for the ninth-grade oral-aural-visual (OAV) English program developed by the Indianapolis Public Schools (see TE 000 954) and funded under Title III, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It emphasizes the coordination of saying, hearing, and seeing in successful communication. The main body of the guide is comprised of discussions of such student activities as using the tape recorder, keeping journals; choral reading; role playing; reading paperback novels; learning sentence patterns; producing 8mm movies; and writing anecdotes, stories, poems, song lyrics, comic books, and television and radio scripts. An appendix contains lists of equipment needed to implement the program dna samples of student work which can be used in making transparencies for instructional use. (JS)