In this unit, we started with discussions about the nature of listening, both in real language use and in language classroom. We believe a better understanding of the listening process in the spoken language will help us understand the difficulties that student experience in developing listening skills. It will also help us to design better listening activities for our student. We then focused on a variety of activities in teaching listening. We have emphasized that teaching listening should focus on the process of listening rather than the result of listening. Listening activities should not merely test the students' memory as many traditional test-oriented listening exercises do.