【正文】 ce fiction, thriller, documentary, etc. Although there are various kinds of video materials, few can be adopted as teaching and learning material in a video course, and what kind of films is suitable for a video course is the key question for teachers. Selecting a suitable film is very important for a teacher to organize a good class, teachers should be careful in choosing films to use in video courses. Teachers should apply different methods to design some activities in different types of films. For example, documentaries often include large information such as news, mentary, and the development of them is always based on an event. When watching this kind of film, the teacher should lead students’ attention on what, who, where, when, how, why questions on the film. [17]The video materials’ selection is significant in English teaching and learning, but the same material cannot meet the whole students’ need. What’s more, they are in different levels and abilities. Look at following table: if the students lack in due attention or anxiety?！娟P(guān)鍵詞】 英語(yǔ)影視、教學(xué)現(xiàn)狀、優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)、教學(xué)方法和活動(dòng)類型1. IntroductionSince the openup in China these decades and the development of science, the video is widely used in English class. A shift of emphasis in foreign language teaching and learning from GrammarTranslation Approach to Communicative Approach has taken place in recent years. Now the municative petence of English is essential for English learners. Meanwhile, there have been remarkable developments in English language teaching and learning. Teachers have been employing various ways to develop students’ abilities and improve the quality of ELT. Although various methods and techniques have been used to try to improve students’ ability to municate in English, studies have proved that videos are quite an effective medium for English teaching and learning. “Harmer (1983:21) thinks that ‘the idea of simulation is to create the pretence of a real life situation in the classroom where students simulate the real world.’” [1] The videos just have this effect as it can offer us a real life world. Teaching and learning English through videos makes the process natural, educational and enjoyable. This article reveals the situations of using videos in English teaching and learning, advantages and disadvantages. This paper also discusses how to improve English teaching and learning with this effective media.2. The present situations of using videos In recent years, the use of videos in English classes has grown rapidly in China as a result of the increasing emphasis on municative teaching techniques. Being a rich and valuable resource, videos are popular with both students and teachers in China, now videos not only provide a form of entertainment to people, but also are used as a way to learn English language. “The video course offered to college and university students of a conversation class is called shitingshuo. In Chinese shiting means ‘watching and listening’ and shuo means ‘speaking’. As listening and speaking are the two major skills students should acquire, the video course not only teaches English through video but also gets students to use the English they have learnt in talking about the video.”[2] Some students like video course, because they can learn a lot from people about their personality, their attitudes towards life, and cultural background in different countries besides language. They can also enjoy many activities such as roleplay, group discussion, debates and so on. While other students who are used to spoonfeeding teaching method are worried about the video, they think watching videos will waste their limited learning time and large class size brings about great difficulties in oral practice activities. Teachers also have their opinions on it, some think that videos can help them motivate their students’ activity, encourage them to practice their oral English and provide a lot of cultural information. However, there are also some teachers not good at using machines and are unfortable with using new equipments. They just play the video from beginning to the end in class.如今英語(yǔ)影視不僅是一種娛樂方式，更是人們學(xué)習(xí)外語(yǔ)的好幫手，它具有廣大的發(fā)展空間。 advantages and disadvantages。英語(yǔ)影視教學(xué)Teaching and Learning English Through Videos來源：中國(guó)論文下載中心[ 080521 14:48:00 ]作者：劉麗娟編輯：studa0714 [Abstract] Since the development of science and technology and the qualityoriented education are gradually valued by the whole society in recent years, the reform of the English class has been increasingly recognized, the aim of which is to enable students to use English effectively. Teaching English through the original movie series as a new teaching method has been carried out in many colleges. The feedback from students has proved that with the broad development of this teaching method involved in intonation, wording, speech, thinking and culture students can make further progress. As the municative approach is gradually valued by the people, videos not only provide a form of entertainment to people, but also are used as a good way to teach or learn English. Based on the situation of them and their advantages and disadvantages, this article emphasizes the importance of the teachers’ role and requirement, the video option and time arrangement in the whole teaching process. At last, this article also offers some teaching methods and activities from prewatching, whilewatching to postwatching, in the hope of making the videos produce a marked effect in English teaching and learning. teaching methods and activities【摘 要】 近年來隨著科技的發(fā)展和素質(zhì)教育越來越受社會(huì)的重視，英語(yǔ)教學(xué)的改革也不斷受到重視，其目的是使學(xué)生更有效地運(yùn)用英語(yǔ)。本文根據(jù)影視英語(yǔ)教學(xué)現(xiàn)狀及優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)的分析，著重強(qiáng)調(diào)了教師在影視教學(xué)中的作用及要求、影片選擇和時(shí)間安排的重要性。 if the time of watching is so little that they cannot thoroughly understand the plot。 Videos are a good source of information about culture“Compared with any other kind of teaching aid, video has quite a unique advantage in introducing foreign culture. Video works could show the actual situation of a town, a c