Why listening and speaking?

Listening and speaking are more important in pre primary  classes.
Kids, they learn through listening  and imitate what they heard. Especially  for kids listening is more important to develop their  vocabularies,
They speak out what they heard.
In my class, every time before the start of my lesson
I start by letting  kids to listen to sounds and rhymes.
Listening  and speaking  involve more then analyzing your ability  to talk and hear from other people.
Listening is about what you learn from external  and speaking  is about presenting information  and ideas  what they heard.
It also shows how you can adapt from writing  texts to presentating them on speaking.
What I have noticed in my class is students who are exposed to more listening are good at speaking.
For example a boy whose parents are educated, knows more vocabulary then the boy coming directly  from a village.
So what I have noticed  is listening  is more important  during their early age.
Later if we want to become a good speaker we should listen alot and

The steps I have taken to teach listening and speaking
are....
1. Teaching rhymes with action.
2. Telling stories.
3.  let them listen to stories.
4.  Reading high frequency  words  aloud
5. Teaching vocabularies  through  pictures.