At some time the students must, obviously, be given the opportunity to take the next step beyond the resume—to practice sustained speech in which they are not summarizing material from the book but expressing their own thoughts, just as in the question-and-answer practice when they went from questions over the content of the text to personalized questions, they now are ready to go beyond the summarization of the content of the text. In this type of activity students need to be given some idea of what to say, some point of departure to get them started. One way of solving this problem is to provide guidelines for them to follow. For example, they might be asked to prepare an oral report on their family by answering such questions as the following: "What is your father's name?" "What is your mother's name?" "How old are they?" "How many brothers and sisters do you have?" "What are their names?" "How old are they?" Of course, the number and complexity of the questions depend upon the material covered in the chapter, but the important point to remember is that unless the students have reached this stage before they continue, they do not have the functional control of the chapter that they should have.