Students in the Swedish school system are expected to orally present in all subjects, and to do it well. They start already in year one to present and tell, by year twelve they are expected to do it almost flawlessly and in many different genres to receive the highest grade. The school subject Swedish is the only subject to teach and develop these skills that are to be used in all subjects. The problem is that very few teachers receive any training within the subject of rhetoric and orality in their five-year university education, unless they chose to do it in their own time. The overall aim of this study is to examine what practices and methods teachers use when instructing and teaching rhetoric and orality. It also examines what methods have been used throughout history, what issues there may be with rhetorical instruction, there is an overview of what research exists in this field, both nationally (Sweden) and internationally. The results present that not much has changed in the past 400 years of teaching rhetoric, from inventio to actio through ethos, pathos and logos. The issue being that most teachers seem to focus their assessment on the students’ actio/pronuntiatio abilities and do not spend time training the students in the other areas of rhetoric. The results are further problematized in the discussion