Understanding foreign speeches is a complex process involving many different skills and abilities,as Ur(1998)cited.In the real world people use different listemng skills for different purposes in different listening situafiom.When teaching listening the teacher should provide various listening materials and design various listening exercises to give the student practice of these skills.This article will firstly talk about the different purposes of real life listening; then,go on to classify the different listening situations whith reference to Ur's (1998) taxonomy.At last the pedagogic implication for the classification is given.