How to arouse students' enthusiasm for learning English in senior high school

No matter what English textbooks are, there is no fixed method for teaching, but there must be a method for teaching. In the actual teaching, we should use a variety of teaching methods flexibly, instead of using a fixed teaching method, we should choose different teaching methods for different students in order to stimulate their interest in learning. My common teaching methods in teaching are as follows:

1. Design flexible and diverse English game activities. Make English teaching playful and entertaining, so that students can learn unconsciously in a pleasant emotional experience, thus improving the interest and efficiency of English learning. For example, use game activities such as "guessing", "role playing" and "scenario simulation" in class. Module 8 "Story Time" Unit 2 is a story about Goldilocks and three little bears. Let the students use their imagination, role-play "The Three Bears" and "Goldilocks", and then let other students guess. They are enthusiastic, take the initiative to participate, think positively, cooperate with teachers to participate in classroom learning, and truly become the masters of learning. Through all kinds of game activities, students' enthusiasm for learning is mobilized, their interest and confidence in learning English are enhanced, which is beneficial for students to overcome shy psychological barriers, develop the habit of speaking English boldly, and achieve twice the result with half the effort.

2. Make full use of the illustrations in English textbooks. Illustration, as an intuitive visual information and teaching media, is an organic part of the teaching material content, which conveys rich information related to the teaching material content and provides relevant background knowledge for the text. The current junior high school English textbooks are illustrated with pictures and texts, and almost every text is accompanied by vivid illustrations, which are in line with the physiological characteristics, psychological characteristics and language learning laws of middle school students, and each illustration is designed for the teaching objectives or one of the specific activities of the class, which is helpful for students to learn. Moreover, it is closer to classroom teaching, and it can also produce animation effects after processing. More importantly, it can solve the problem of heavy teaching tasks and tight time for English teachers. In actual teaching, if we can properly use illustrations to assist teaching according to teaching needs, we will certainly receive unexpected teaching results. For example, in the first volume of Module 5 Unit 1, there are three pictures in the first part, and several questions are put forward according to the pictures: Where are they? What are they doing ? What can they buy here ? With the help of illustrations in books, on the one hand, we review and consolidate what we have learned, on the other hand, we also train students' oral expression ability. The content used is different from the textbook, and it is easy and interesting for students to accept it. At the same time, it is convenient for students to learn from each other in communication, which makes students love textbooks more and helps students to further understand, consolidate and internalize their language knowledge into their own knowledge and skills.

3. Give play to the role of study groups. Cooperative learning plays an important role in enlivening classroom teaching atmosphere, cultivating students' cooperative spirit and creativity, and stimulating their interest in learning English. Cooperative learning is mainly based on group activities, which transforms the competition between individuals into the competition between groups. Students' learning together can promote their own and others' learning. Every unit of the textbook has exercises of "work in pairs" or "work in groups". Therefore, according to the students' personality, interests, hobbies and knowledge level, I divided the students in my class into five study groups, and each study group arranged a person in charge. In group learning, students take their places, discuss and practice with each other. Students with good English foundation will help those with poor English foundation, and students who are afraid to speak at ordinary times will also have the opportunity to practice English, so that their interest in learning English will rise.

4. Make English courseware and create learning scenarios. Modern multimedia education technology with computer as the core is changing with each passing day. English teachers should master it and use it properly, which is also an effective way for English teachers to improve students' interest in learning in the teaching process. Teachers make courseware with words, sounds, images and animations on the computer, which is vivid, intuitive, vivid, easy for students to understand and accept, and students' interest will be full, and learning will be interesting. In English teaching, teachers can make full use of network resources, make courseware with pictures, words and sounds, and create teaching situations. For example, Module 6 Unit 2, the second volume of Grade 7, introduces the tourist routes and scenic spots in London. If you just talk about the text, students will find it boring. We can download videos from stand-alone online textbooks for teaching. When vivid pictures are presented on the screen, and then explained by the teacher in English, students will be touched by sight and hearing, and unconsciously imitate the teacher to describe the scene, thus achieving the teaching effect. Multimedia teaching enables students to learn more senses, strengthen their memory, make our teaching lively and interesting, and improve teaching efficiency.

5. according to what you have learned, arrange creative homework to extend students' interest in learning English with "innovation". We need to design some novel and interesting homework to extend children's happiness in learning English. Let them not only consolidate their textbook knowledge, but also broaden their extracurricular English knowledge, so as to have a stronger interest in learning and a stronger sense of initiative. Every student has creative talent, and once this talent is discovered and affirmed, it will have endless follow-up effects. I make full use of this in my teaching, and often assign some homework that makes students interested. For example, learning "What color is it?" After this sentence, I arranged for the students to go back and draw "Autumn in their hometown", so that they could draw every color they saw in autumn and bring it back to class for discussion and practice. This process not only consolidates students' interest, but also prepares materials for oral practice, and also cultivates their feelings of loving their hometown and practical ability.

Using a variety of teaching methods can make students study in a relaxed atmosphere, and students will regard learning as a pleasure and fun. They will exert their greatest enthusiasm, initiative and creativity to achieve the ideal effect of learning.