Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret message in the communication process. As an active skill, listening requires listeners to deal with a variety of complicated tasks, such as discriminating between sounds and interpreting stress and intonation. Listeners use a variety of mental processes to give meaning to the information they listen to. These mental steps can be broadly described as listening comprehension strategies. As indicated by Song (2008), listeners often do not handle listening tasks in an effective way utilizing these strategies successfully. It is the key to all effective communication, because without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood. A person who produces language and another one who receives language and also comprehend the intended information. Therefore, listening is a receptive skill. Due to the fact that pupils do not only listen to language but also combine the things they hear with their own knowledge and “listen to the meaning behind the words” (Nunan, 2003, p.24). Furthermore, the more pupils hear and understand spoken english, the more they acquire the language and also extend their knowledge of proper intonation, pitch, and stress. Hence, the teachers’ voice has a great influence on the pupils understanding of the foreign language (cf. Harmer 2011, p.133).