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. If students do not have enough vocabulary, they will be nervous when come across some unfamiliar words or phrases, which will affect students’ global understanding of the listening text. Therefore, students must try every method to increase they vocabulary. Grammar is crucial for listening comprehension. If students have a solid grammar basis, they can understand the grammar in listening comprehension easily, which is helpful for students to improve their listening ability. Thus, students must consult as many grammar books as possible to accumulate the vocabulary for the great improvement of listening comprehension. 4.4 Enrich students’ background knowledge Background knowledge has a close relationship with listening comprehension. Students can try the following methods to enrich their background knowledge. One is to read extensively, especially to read English books about the English-speaking countries’ history, geography, customs, religion, sports, education and culture. Also students must be encouraged to touch English as much as possible, such as reading some English newspapers, magazines and original novels, which contain a lot of information of English-speaking countries. The more students read, the more knowledge they know. The improvement of reading ability will promote the improvement of listening ability. The other is to make full use of the English movies or TV programs to gain some background knowledge. All these aim at making students familiar with those English speaking culture and traditions besides what have been explained in the classroom. During the process of the author’s doing practice teaching at a middle school, the author found that the students who had enough background knowledge could got a better result than those students who had little background knowledge in listening comprehension. Thus, students must read widely, enlarge common knowledge and pay attention to the currents and newest achievements of scientific culture. Hence, it can create favorable conditions for understanding English lecture, broadcast and conversation. 4.5 Ways to train students’ listening skills and develop good habits Students only have fruitful phonetic, vocabulary or background knowledge is not enough, they must form good habits and master some listening skills. 4.5.1 Cultivate students’ ability of catching important information Students should read the requirements before listening so as to catch some information ahead. That is to say, they should skim the exercises to seize any possible hints about the passage and have a short memory on them. Then take notes while listening to strengthen their memory. During the process of listening comprehension, students’ attention should be focused on the key points of the listening materials, but not on every word or sentence. The key points usually cover “ws”, when, where, who and how. For instance: (21). W: You seem very confident about the job interview, don’t you? M: Yes, I feel ready for it. I brought a good suit in a clothing store. I had studied almost everything about finance and economics. Q: Where is the probably going to work? A) In a school. B) In a bank. C) In a clothing store. D) In a barbershop. If students can catch the most important two words “finance” and “economics”, they will realize the man is going to work in a bank. 4.5.2 Cultivate students’ ability of guessing Guessing is a very important skill for foreign language, especially for listening, be