传统的英语教学注重知识的传授,忽视了学生思维能力等智力因素的培养,导致学生思维僵化,不能灵活运用语言知识技能。全日制义务教育《英语课程标准》规定,英语课程要面向全体学生,使他们在学习过程中发展综合语言运用能力,为真实语言交际打基础。而交际是一种思维活动,充满着极强的创造思维与应变能力,在更新教学观念的同时,我们不能忽视这些思维能力的培养,以免出现像“Napoleon’s Three Questions”中那个瑞士兵回答问题张冠李戴的现象。为此,在英语教学中,我们力求做到以下方面。 Traditional English teaching focuses on imparting knowledge and ignoring the cultivation of intellectual factors such as students’ thinking ability, leading to the rigid thinking of students and the inability to apply language knowledge and skills flexibly. Full-time compulsory education “English Curriculum Standards” provides that English courses should be for all students so that they can develop comprehensive language skills in the learning process, lay the foundation for real-language communication. Communication is a kind of thinking activity, full of creative thinking and adaptability. While updating teaching concepts, we can not neglect the training of these thinking skills so as not to appear like the Swiss soldier in “Napoleon’s Three Questions” The problem of Zhang Guoli Dai phenomenon. To this end, in English teaching, we strive to achieve the following aspects.