The use of speech or language produced by native speakers in real situations for teaching oral communication skills in the second language classroom is described. Three sample lessons, based on the author's teaching experience in Japan, are presented. All lessons used material called "The Bellcrest Story," produced by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Oxford University Press. The multimedia set included videotape cassettes, cassette tapes, a textbook, and a book of related documents. They were used in English as a second language classes directed at businessmen. Each lesson consisted of four parts: (1) the exposure stage, in which the material for the lesson was analyzed in detail; (2) the practice stage, in which the specific speech acts presented in the exposure stage were practiced; (3) the use stage, in which the students practiced communication through role playing; and (4) the evaluation stage, in which both the students and the teacher evaluated, through discussion, the learning that has taken place. Suggestions for applying this approach to other aspects of second language learning, such as writing skills, are included. (EKN)