What should we pay attention to when choosing English listening and speaking textbooks?

English teaching in primary schools is a science. As an introductory stage, if you want to learn English well, you should not only learn some knowledge of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, but also practice solid listening and speaking skills. In primary school English teaching, the main task is to train students' basic skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing through a series of teaching activities, so as to stimulate students' interest in learning and cultivate good English learning habits. Moreover, by learning a certain amount of vocabulary and contacting a certain amount of daily communication terms, students' initial communication ability based on listening and speaking ability is cultivated, which lays a good foundation for further English learning. So how to cultivate primary school students' listening and speaking ability? Here, I would like to make some suggestions.

First, audio-visual imitation to cultivate good listening habits

The third grade of primary school is the entry stage of English learning. The first textbook has no words, only colorful pictures, so that students can concentrate on listening to tapes when they are learning English for the first time. Primary school students' listening training should first avoid boredom and adopt flexible and diverse means that students like. Some listening exercises can be combined with games as far as possible, and the design of listening training should be flexible. Students can use illustrated forms to stimulate students' interest in learning, so that students can concentrate and keep in good condition. For example, when teaching words, teachers are not in a hurry to let students imitate reading. Instead, the teacher demonstrates the pronunciation first, and the students observe the teacher's mouth shape while listening, paying attention to its size, flatness, circle and change, so as to see and hear clearly. The teacher reads the gesture once or twice, and when the gesture is made for the third time, the whole class imitates it in unison, so that the pronunciation is easy to get in place and the imitation effect is good. For example, in the teaching of sentence patterns and daily communication terms, teachers can guide students to do corresponding actions to train their listening. The teacher issued: A. Stand up! B.sit down! C. Turn right/left D. Touch your nose/eyes/face/legs. Students make corresponding actions. This exercise cultivates students' listening ability and improves their reaction speed.

Second, try to organize teaching in English to cultivate students' good listening and speaking habits.

Organizing teaching in English can set off the English classroom atmosphere, enhance students' curiosity and improve their listening and speaking ability. Teachers can talk freely with students before each class, starting with simple everyday language. Such as: hello every day! How are you today, everyone? Students can answer: fine, thank you; How are you, Miss Chen? . Students on duty make English reports before each class. At the beginning of practice, simple knowledge can be applied to the content of the duty report. Students on duty can talk about the weather, family, school, their good friends and so on. These are all good materials for training listening and speaking ability and language expression ability.

Third, make use of all teaching media to create a good listening and speaking environment for students.

Objects, pictures, stick figures, lights, projections, videos and recordings are common visual teaching AIDS in English teaching. They create realistic English teaching scenes for students and put them in real language environment, thus generating real demand and passion for using English, and getting some help to promote real communication, so that students can participate in classroom communication activities more consciously and interestingly, and give full play to their initiative and persuasion in speaking English. Moreover, the use of audio-visual AIDS can make students listen to authentic English recordings and cultivate their ability to understand authentic English. Let them imitate the pronunciation and intonation of others in the process of listening to prevent students from swallowing their voices.

Fourth, play a role. Performing dialogues to cultivate students' listening and speaking ability.

Bring the performance into the classroom or often compose the sentence patterns and dialogue texts into short plays in the classroom, let the students perform, turn the podium into a stage, try to let the students perform what they have learned according to the set situational structure, let them enjoy the combination and get a lot of listening and speaking opportunities. For example, three students are called Sue, Kate and Mary. Sue and Kate are classmates and Mary is Kate's friend. They met in the street. Kate introduced her friend Mary to Sue (asked three students to perform).

Kate: Hello! Mary.

Mary: Hello! Kate.

Kate: Sue, this is Mary. She is my friend.

This is Sue. She is my classmate.

Mary: Nice to meet you!

Sue: Nice to meet you, too!

When performing dialogues, teachers should pay attention to asking students to express themselves appropriately in English according to the situation, and listeners should make reasonable responses according to the actual situation. When speaking English, the pronunciation, intonation and light and heavy sounds should be basically correct and full of emotion.

Fifth, strengthen language practice, carry out extracurricular interest activities and cultivate students' listening and speaking ability.

Teachers should try their best to create language practice opportunities for students from in-class to out-of-class. Such as: organizing language games, competitions, opening English corners, holding English interest groups, etc. Rehearse English entertainment programs. Emphasize greeting students in English between teachers and students. In addition, students are required to apply what they have learned in daily life as much as possible, whether in meetings, after class or on their way home. These activities can not only stimulate students' interest in learning and learning English, but also help students to eliminate psychological barriers, overcome the tension of speaking English, and create an atmosphere of speaking English boldly, striving to speak English and loving speaking English.

Sixth, collect some contents of western customs to increase students' knowledge.

In addition to the training of listening and speaking contents in textbooks, teachers should try to choose some contents related to the culture and living habits of western countries such as Britain and the United States, so that students can not only understand the living conditions and customs of people in English-speaking countries, but also broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge, laying a good foundation for normal English communication in the future.

In short, primary school students' English learning stage mainly focuses on the cultivation of listening and speaking ability, so teachers should adopt flexible and diverse teaching methods and effective teaching means to improve primary school students' English listening and speaking ability.