Abstract With the rapid development of society, the traditional English teaching approaches turn out to be rigid and backward. What’s more, they are not flexible enough to adapt to the requirements of new curriculum reform. This thesis aims at advocating the application of English movies in middle school English teaching and upgrading the quality of English teaching. Based on the analysis of the problems in middle school English teaching, it elaborates the advantages of introducing English movies to classroom English teaching. Then it presents detailed standards to choose English movies and procedures of applying English movies in middle school English teaching. Last but not least, it is the profound hope that this thesis can be helpful to classroom English teaching and ultimately improve students’ English competence.69645

Keywords: English movies; middle school English teaching; movie selection;   application

摘要随着社会的飞速发展，传统的英语教学模式方法单一落后，已经不适应新课改的要求。本课题旨在提倡运用原声电影进行英语教学高教学质量。首先，文章在对当今初中英语教学中存在的问题进行分析的基础上，阐述了使用英文电影教学的优势，指出了将英语电影带入课堂的必要性。同时，本文对英语电影的选片标准进行了详细的说明，以及对影片具体应用进行阐述。希望有助于课堂教学，并提高初中生的英语水平。

毕业论文关键词：英语电影；中学英语教学；电影选择；应用

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. Problems in Current Middle School English Teaching 4

3.1 Lack of learning interest 4

3.2 Poor oral expression 4

3.3 Exam-oriented education 5

4. Advantages of Applying English Movies in Middle School Teaching 5

4.1 Improving learning interest 6

4.2 Creating an active atmosphere in class 6

4.3 Improving intercultural communicative competence 6

4.4 Raising students’ aesthetic awareness 7

5. Application of Movies in English Teaching 8

5.1 The criteria of selecting English movies 8

5.2 Procedures of applying movies in English teaching 10

6. Conclusion 12

Works Cited 14

1. Introduction 

If there is a resource that can be applied to improve something, it will deserve to be tried. English movie is such a resource. Movies, as a mirror of the real life, is a combination of motion picture and a modern art, composed of active photography and slide shows. It is an epitome of the culture and artistic nature. As to improving English competence, English movie plays an irreplaceable role.

In today’s English teaching, teacher’s teaching method is a bit of stiff, which can not meet the requirements of new course standard of English teaching. Students’ English learning is lack of initiative and interest. To solve the problems, the method of promoting English teaching by watching English movie is one of the priorities.

 Watching English movies is not only a way to improving students’ listening and speaking ability, but also a platform for students to comprehend the culture of some countries which speak English. Therefore, there is no denying that English movies are of tremendous benefits in learning English. 英语电影在初中英语教学的应用:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_78635.html