The purpose of this article is to introduce some approaches to develop students' communicative ability. The authors first lypresents some problems in traditional teaching of intensive reading; e g., present vocabulary' items one by one; analyse the text sentence by sentence; the stage of teachers' teaching method is fixed, teachers usually present vocabulary in the text,then explain the text by' analyzing structure first, meaning second;teachers completely' take the charge of the class and speak a lot,they forget to involve the students' participation. Then,the paper presents the practical ways of teaching based on the learner-centered approach in classrooms to show how students' initiative is given fully play, including 1) Design some questions that will lead students into the core materials of a lesson. 2) Ask students to anticipate the content of the text judging from the title or ask students some guiding questions related to the text. 3) Working on the text by means of text analysis, ask students to find topic sentences, make sound judgment and inference, recognize denotation and connotation, understand figurative language,draw conclusions and work out the organization of the text and features of its style. 4)Create a friendly' learning environment and provide more opportunities for students to practise. Finally,the paper presents some cautions to be taken in teaching.