This paper strives to ascertain the use of teamwork as an instructional strategy in an English language lesson, in a typical Nigerian classroom. Teamwork is the ability of people to work together to achieve a common purpose and team players are the high achievers in the team whose main preoccupation is to see that teams achieve their stated objectives. Our major argument in this paper is that teamwork is a very effective teaching methodology which has been found useful in many other countries in the developed world and which is workable in the Nigerian classroom, especially with its characteristic large class sizes.