How to Improve the Students' Listening and Speaking Skills

The purpose of English teaching is to improve the students’ four skills of listening,speaking,reading and writing,with the base of necessary phonetics,large vocabulary and good grammar,but this is not the final purpose.The final purpose is to let students to use the language.When we talk about the four skills,people often say "First listening and speaking,then reading and writing".The paper shows some useful methods for listening and speaking teaching.If we use these methods properly,the students can improve their listening and speaking skills easily and express themselves freely.