It is common practice to teach the five skills separately, and text books that are available on the market are prepared in such a way. The distinction of the five is however artificial and only justifiable on pedagogical ground. That is, it makes it easier to allocate teaching duties; it may make learners feel good, for they can claim mastering five - the more the better - skills. In terms of language learning process and communicative competence, the five skills are inseparable: They are mutually dependent, and mutually supportive. In our policy over curriculum design, the pedagogical desirability of separation versus the inseparable nature of the skills yields a compromise of an integrated approach with different degrees of emphasis each course places on a particular skill. The following table gives you an overall map of how the degrees of emphasis on a particular skill are distributed in the first module courses.