Integrating Language skills

We have been learning about the importance of the primary skills of language od listening, speaking, reading, and writing but it becomes difficult the intregrate all into the learning. We have talked about the importance of authentic examples to be cordinated into the classroom but we have found there are some obstacles in doing so. As ESL teachers our goal isto help our studnts become competent in each area so we need to finds particular ways to use all at once. I really enjoyed some of the proposed projects and microstrategies that are offered to promote the integration of all of the skills. The main problem is that we ask ourselves how realistic is that these projects can be used in the classroom. There are always time restrainsts that teachers have to face. Also tachers face the always daunting fear of approval from the principal to create projects that do not follow the curiculum.