The document describes a listening activity for 4-year-old students. It involves listening to a story without reading along first to test comprehension. Then students read the text to improve understanding. The story is about a woman with severe arachnophobia (fear of spiders). She sees a psychiatrist who uses exposure therapy, having her interact with plastic and real spiders, to cure her phobia through behavioral approach techniques over many sessions. By the end she can touch a real spider, but then sees a beetle and screams, showing her phobia is not fully cured.