There is an increasing awareness of the fact that we need to design new courses of English language teaching, as the old syllabi have become outdated. The new syllabuses should be based on communicative approach to language. The old syllabuses based on structural principles have not been successful in enabling the foreign learners of English to use English effectively in real life situations. Hence in this paper, some theoretical and methodological steps have been proposed to design a syllabus. This is done in the light of the results that we have drawn from various attempts already made elsewhere in research in the area of communicative syllabus design.