 Before we move on to the planning of a lesson for speaking skills, something that we need to look at first is the idea of the accuracy versus the fluency of speaking. Accuracy relates to the correct usage of grammar and vocabulary, whereas fluency relates to our ability to continue speaking without any interruption. Now, ultimately, within a whole ESA lesson or within language learning itself, fluency and accuracy are equally important. Within an ESA lesson, however, depending upon which stage we're at in that lesson, then we're either focusing on accuracy or we're focusing on fluency. Remember, in the ESA lesson, in the study phase, this is where we're looking at the target language, where we're doing our language learning, so it's very important in this stage that we focus on the accuracy of the language. Whereas in the activate stage, we're trying to get the students to use the language in a realistic way, and what we want them to do there is to focus on fluency.