【正文】 after learning roads, for instance, in view of this situation, it is necessary to emphasize the importance of English listening in rural this article, we start with conditions of the middle school listening teaching, point out some problems and design some activities in the beginning of the we focus on some activities of teaching English listening and insist that the activities should be emphasized on the process of listening, rather than the result of ?s more, students should attach more great importance to the elementary knowledge, such as phonetics，assimilation, enough vocabulary, this paper, listening problem and strategies of junior middle school in rural will discuss them in details in the follow parts: situation of English listening teaching in rural areas China is a developing economic development is not balanced and production and living standard of rural are very in rural country, lack of modern teaching facilities and making structure of teacherresource unreasonable which affect directly or indirectly students? the pursuit of shortterm examinations also influences English most excellent teachers go to developed regions rather than staying at work in the problem of junior middle school students in rural areas Listening is an important mean of language is one of the significant ways in English language ,(RenXiaoping,2001：12)puts forward some statistics show that nearly fifty percent students regard listening prehension as the most difficult part among all kinds of the following parts ,listening problem of junior middle school students in rural areas will be The pronunciation problem It is clear that “ Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonetic medium of language”, Dai Weidong proposed.(WangQiang，2002：35).If students want to listen and understand the general language materials, they must make every effort to listen and understand each word, which is very , as a new language for Chinese students, usually appears some problems exactly on phonetics, such as the mistakes on pronunciation, intonation, and all kinds of skill like word stress, assimilation, instance, the phrase “tinned meat”, in the informal occasion, its pronunciation is described as /tin｀mi: t/.Ed among tinned is pronunciation of n assimilates /m/ just as following examples: That boy—thap boyTen people—tem people In English, Many short words have two or more than kinds of pronunciation: accented mode and one or more than one weak word in nonstress position of sentence usually appears with mode of weak , the word in stress position mainly appears with stress there are many exceptions, sometimes stress appears in position on nonstress Such as the following dialogue: A: You had better give him the : I am going to do two sentences in the pronunciation as follows: “Him” appears with weak the other hand, it is assimilated by give so that the pronunciation of these two words in the second sentence, “going to ”and “do” also appear with the form of weak changes of pronunciation caused the difficulties for the stress is the relative strength or key point of words on pronouncing among people speak, not every word is in all, notional words are stressed, but functional words appear with weak stress unless the speaker intended for being understanding function of sentences can help learners understand implied meaning of sentences in the process of listening following dialogue will serve to illustrate the point:(Man)Is anyone ing to class today?(woman) is ?barely ?: What does the woman mean? two people came to class so man should take a is not very teacher is too correct answer is lady emphasizes “barely” and “two” in the some students think that he emphasize the reached fact, the woman wants to express this meaning that it is too early to worry about the students? present Vocabulary problem English has a wide vocabulary and it is a very flexible of English vocabulary, the proficiency of grasping and phenomenon of polysemy and homonym bring about a certain difficulties for students39。 listening the process of listening prehension, listener should not only do the exercises of sound recognition, but also learn more (Li Guanyi,2008:23)put forward that “Some English words have a mon root but are used in very different human and humane, for origin is the same and their meanings are related, but their usage is human action is not the same thing as a humane cannot speak of a Declaration of Humane Rights —There is a weapon called a humane killer, but it is not a human killer.” For example, the following two sentences: a：She was fast : She ran fast.“Fast” has different meanings in the different , students usually make a wrong conclusion according to familiar words which they using different words can express the different example, “Dianti”, British use “l(fā)ift”, but American use “elevator”。“Ren Xingdao”, British use “pavement”, But American use “sidewalk”.Besides, for instance, first floor, it represents the second floor in Britain, but in American it represents the first The lack of grammar knowledge Some students have not solid grammar skills and idioms in listening so that they misunderstand the original meaning of sentence with fuzzy concept or misunderstanding grammatical structure of the following examples: “It is unnecessary for you to go there.” In this sentence, if students do not know that unnecessary is antonyms of necessary, they will misunderstand this sentence, even the opposition to the grammar can help students catch the implication of the vocal sounds, and understand them well, and it is also the essential condition of a whole passage background knowledgeLanguage is the medium of culture, and special culture produces different characteristics of the language China, English is a foreign language(EFL), not a second language(ESL).Both students and teachers are doing their jobs under their condition which quit different from that such as in the most of articles o