【正文】 the most difficult part among all kinds of examinations due to the following reasons. Inadequate English learning environment English teaching and learning ask for quite some challenges. The challenges are the short of adequate linguistic environment, the strong interference from their mother tongue, the overcrowded classrooms and the lack of sufficient time for English study on the students’ side. In junior middle schools, it is true that Chinese students are not so influenced as those in Western countries mainly because they are lack of selfconfidence and they are afraid of making mistakes. In China, English is a foreign language (EFL), not a second language (ESL). Both students and teachers are doing their jobs under this condition which is quite different from that English speaking countries. For example, Chinese immigrant students in Canada can learn English more quickly than those in China. Why? Because English in Canada is regarded as its second language. They have a much better English environment and higher motivations. A better English learning environment is also needed in China. What students in China need is just an authentic language learning environment. Old teaching beliefs and methods What most teachers do in class is merely to play the recorder and check answers to listening exercises. As a result, most students can hardly learn anything in class, and listening prehension gives much headache. What’s more, teachers of English in China are placed under a serious disadvantage. It is usually difficult for to go to study or work in the countries where English is spoken them. Even worse most of them have no opportunities to go abroad to make further English study. They have learned English only in China. So, we can say that their English teaching must be influenced by their mother tongue. In addition, they are accustomed to using the old teaching method, which lays more emphasis on grammar. In order to make themselves understood by all the students, some teachers would explain the grammar rulers or even the texts in Chinese rather than in English in class. Therefore, students have fewer opportunities to be exposed to English listening, let alone improve their listening skills. Barriers of listening prehension Listening prehension is the integration of two aspectshearing and understanding. If you have a better level about English knowledge, you may be capable of understanding very well in listening to the materials, and may have a perfect response to any question asked by the speakers on the tapes. Barriers of phoics and phonology According to Dai (2020), “phoics is defined as the study of the phoic medium of language, and phonology studies how speech sounds system in a language form pattern [1]”. English, as a new language for Chinese students, usually appears some problems exactly on phoics and phonology, such as the mistakes on pronunciation, intonation, and all kinds of skills like assimilation word stress, sentence stress, motion of sound, soundlinking and inplete explosion, etc. Therefore some basic knowledge about English phoics and phonology will directly influence students’ listening prehension. So designing some interesting games is to let students discriminate the different pronunciation. The key point is guiding students to find the difference themselves. For example, most Chinese students find the discrimination of some sound is a problem in listening prehension, especially, some vowels. ., they can hardly distinguish the words like “meetmeat” and “bagbeg”. In a sentence like “He seats himself behind the desk.” seat /si:t/ is very important in understanding the sentence, but some students just recognize it as sit /sit/. Barriers of tempo For the tempo, it means the speed of speaking. An actor who is good at tongue twisters can control it very well. Some people enjoy more variation in tempo than others, but everyone has a norm which in characteristic of his usual conversational style. One tends to use a rapid tempo in everyday speech in English, but Chinese students usually don’t have such a tempo in listening. Although