【正文】 B． She went upstairs.C． Either on the tree in the garden or on the window upstairs.5． What happened to the old lady one morning?A． On the tree near the house.B． He saw the bird.C． In an old lady’s home.3． What did the Frenchman often do in the morning?A． Near a bird cage.B． To study English. the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. It es from an early history of America. The first settlers in America shared their first harvest with the hungry Indians and save many of them, and from then on Indians give thanks every year and the holiday is formed.This material is about Thanksgiving Day, which is celebrated only in America and Canada. The majority of students may just know there is such a festival in America, but do not know the origin of it, thus teachers should try to tell them about the origin of the festival. After it, teachers surely can make students who are without the relevant background knowledge get rid of the anxiety and gain confidence in listening the material. Strengthen teaching of listening skillsIn listening prehension, the newlyheard sound will be kept for about one second in the echo memory, during which students match sound and word with linguistic knowledge and put the word in the shortterm memory. The function of shortterm memory is to remember the word until listener organize the word into sentence and grasp the idea of it, then clear up the memory of the word to keep another newheard information. If students try to remember each word and sentence, shortterm memory will be overloaded, and many words will be cleared up before being organized, thus they can just remember the last sentence they heard. So students should grasp some listening skills to improve their ability of listening. Make use of the questions and options before listening and predict the listening contentStudents should try to make full use of the time between the handing out of listening material and the playing of the material to skim the questions and the options fast. Then make efforts to predict the content of the listening materials, such as the time, place, people, figure, career, or the topic and purport. With such activities, students would gradually form the habit of making use of titles, topics or whatever clues to predict what was ing next. Only by doing so can they use their rich content and experiential knowledge to anticipate and predict what is going to be heard. It would be of great benefit for their listening prehension. For instance, look at the following questions. 1． What did the Frenchman e to England to do? motivation, evidence shows superfluous pressure can have bad effect on learners. So teachers should keep the class challenging while at the same time create an easy and happy input atmosphere to reduce their impediment or negative anxiety. Teacher should try their best to make students concentrate their attention on listening, which can avoid students fancying or thinking about other things while doing the listening work. Apart from that, for some students who are incapable in listening, they have no confidence or even fear of that. Selfconfidence is the psychological foundation on the way to success, it39。 for example: But usually people do not meet their penfriends because they live many miles away from each other. Most penfriends are between children living in different countries. They write to one another to find out about the way of life in other countries. Sometimes they write so that they can practice using one another’s language.t, herehair, muchmarch, quitequiet, kitchenchicken, mouthmouse. For instance, M: Mary, why isn’t Jane teaching here this term?W: She can’t. She was fired.Q: What reason was given for Jane’s not teaching? A: she was tired of teachingB: the school is too hotC: she was not employed to work this termHere the answer is C, but many students would choose A, as they may take “Fired” as “Tired” while listening.Besides, students often meet with unexpected problems while they are listening to tapes. Sometimes they can’t identify all the words correctly. And even words that they are quite familiar with, they fail to identify them at once only by listening. So when the students meet with an unknown word during the process of listening, they may stop and think about the meaning of that word. As the tape is fast and can’t be regressive, they miss the following part, and finally the understanding of the whole passage. Therefore, it’s of great necessity to encourage students to enlarge their vocabulary as much as possible. Psychological problemsThe process of listening prehension is a process of psychological activities. In the case of listening, some students might be fancying or thinking about other things. If such case lasts a few seconds or even a few minutes, the putin message would be broken down. In this way, it must influence the effect of listening prehension. And some students greatly want to get a good point in the test, and they are afraid of their not fitting of the content or the speed of the listening material, so their thoughts don’t work while listening. Hence their listening prehension is not continuous or correct. Therefore they can not understand the content that they should understand. Listening skills Listening skills play a quite important role in English listening prehension. But in English learning many junior high school students are lack of listening skills such as making prediction, guessing information, drawing inferences, getting the main ideas, taking notes etc. In most cases, they only listen to the tape and catch a little information about the tape. If they do not catch up with the speed of the listening, and do not understand the beginning of the material, they would give up and do not continue to listen to the following material. All these make them unable to do a good job in English listening prehension. Background kn