Language teaching starts with oral/spoken language and the child learns it by listening. All of us learnt our language initially by listening to our parents, members of our family, and the people around us.And then in order to speak the language, we started using the sounds and words that we have listened to. Thus, listening and speaking are the beginning of all language learning.Language skills allow an individual to comprehend and produce language for proper and effective interpersonal communication. The four basic language skills and their natural order are listening-speaking-reading-writing.Listening skill:In the primary stage, students love to listen to poems. They can easily learn and remember the poems.The teacher should select an interesting poem and present it in a natural way with proper articulation, intonation, rhythm and appropriate actions and gestures.The teacher should first recite the poem herself and then let the learners repeat/recite it initially along with her and later on independently in groups.The teacher may, thereafter ask the students some very simple questions about the poem. This will ensure better attention of the students and contribute to the development of listening skills.Speaking skill:An ability to speak effectively and fluently is of great importance in life. But true skill and ease in speaking can come only from genuine practice in all the various types of situations or opportunities for speaking in which a learner naturally finds himself/herself.In teaching speech, the teacher therefore, should create in the classroom such situations or opportunities for speaking as the learners would encounter in their real life.Dialogues, play-acting or role-playing, describing present or past events, retelling new items, reciting poems, etc. are some such activities that can provide opportunities for training in carrying out a conversation in real life.Hence, it is clear that Ms Sudhina is strengthening her children's listening and speaking skills.