Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

The Essentiality of Pre-listening in a Listening Class
It is useful to overview the difficulties in listening teaching initially so that the role of pre-listening stage can be further discussed.
The Difficulties in Teaching Listening
The difficulties could show different representations in classroom teaching of listening:

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  Students could be anxious about a long text for the reason of lacking time to process information.
  
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  Unfamiliar context and background could scare the students and make them lose interests and patience.
  
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  Students may be influenced by new vocabularies, phonetic phenomenon, grammar structure and these affections could decrease their comprehension about the text.
  
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  By giving a long audio material, students could have difficulties to concentrate on the important information.
  

There are also some other elements in the process of listening which could confuse the students such as different accent, background noise and assimilation, etc.

Below is a listening text from a book for beginners. There are five different pre-listening activities, A to E, which you are going to evaluate in this task.