What is teaching English as a second language like today?

Many people nowadays are in the necessity to learn English effectevely with a good pronuntiation and accent. Even though, most of the methodologies used by teachers do not promote communicative skills, that is because the activities applied in class are not meaninful and effective. this is a very common problem, if we go to a typical English classroom in public high school we realize that students just focus in grammar exercises like fill in blacks, drills, writing short sentences, etc. Based in my experice, I would say that with these kind of activities teachers no not develop many skills....