【正文】 as made a serious mistake in terms of appropriate. However, if the teacher emphasizes these phenomenons in class, most students can avoid such silly mistake. The requirements of improving of English teaching and learningThe students have mon opinion that our foreign language lesson are too boring to attend. Everyday, teachers teach language structure, new words and grammar that students loose their interest and motivity to English. Learning English just for getting high score, for going to famous university, but not for their interesting. Presentation of cultural background can not only help students improve their awareness of cultural differences and help them form good study habit, but also help students to know politics, economy, thoughts and ideas of Englishspeaking countries and nationalities. With general cultural knowledge, they may get to understand the psychology and code of thinking of Englishspeaking people. For example, in New Senior English For China Student‘s Book 1, unite 1 “Friendship” let the student know various friendships, know the damage of the war and know the terrible fate of the Jews. In unite 5 “Nelson Mandela a mordern hero”, the teacher should introduce Nelson Mandela to students and let them know his main deed that fought against racial oppression in South African and he won the Nobel Peace Prize because of his great contributions. Let the student peep the historical truth of the South Africa free war. In brief, in the teaching process, introducing some western culture in the cultural context knowledge to students at the right moment can arouse the students’ curiosity to the ancient mystical western culture and the rich and colorful western society, thus stimulating their study interests. Interest is the half of success. If the students are interested in study, it can enhance the effect of the teaching greatly.4. The experiment about students’ intercultural awareness in middle schoolIn order to prove the research that cultivating students’ intercultural awareness can improve their English, the writer had a test in senior one students of Don Shan middle school during my period of probation. The test included two classes with 98 students, all of whom were just graduated from junior middle school. Before the writer had the test, she devised a questionnaire and distributed to the students. After the test,the writer still used these questionnaires to check the effect of her teaching. Through the questionnaires the writer found some questions and got some inspirations from it. The questionnaire before the test Most students can be aware that cultural awareness is important for their English study, but few of them think cultural awareness is very important for English learning (chart 1). Students usually have such opinions that learning English is just to learning new words, new grammar rules and then getting a high score in exam. They do not have a correct motivation. In the test, nearly 70% students recognized that their motivations to learn English are that get a satisfied score in university entrance exam and gain the enrolments notification from famous university. They do not have a strong desire to municate with people of the target language (chart 2). Although majority of the students are interested in western culture, such as western literature, western music and western sport starts (chart 3). History classes pay more about western culture knowledge to students than the English class. Only % students think they would get the intercultural knowledge in their spare time. The questionnaires show that they rely on the teacher excessively and fail to search for deep understanding by themselves (chart 4).After the writer get the information, the writer change her teaching method, reduce the time to explain words and grammars, and integrate the following intercultural knowledge in class. Literature WorksLiterature is a mirror for people to understand a culture. They reflect habits, mentality, characteristics, customs and social relationship. Teachers should teach students to understand the western literary works and train their ability to appreciate the literature works. Teachers can help students analyze the typical characters to understand what the characters tell them. More can be introduced to students, for instance, some special words in western literary works: enlightenment, allegory, alliteration, antihero, villain, classicism, decadence, impressionism, etc。s), etc. Culturallyloaded WordsWith the culture diversity, words in China are different from those in western country. Therefore, in the process of teaching and learning, particular attention should be paid to the following words: animal words, color words, number words, idioms, proverbs and allusions.For example, dragon: Chinese uses 龍的傳人 to call themselves. Dragon is a totem of the Chinese. But in English, a dragon is a huge lizard, with a pair of wings. It can erupt fire from its mouth. As a matter of fact, a dragon in English and in Chinese does not refer to the same creature. In Chinese “dragon” is the symbol of “power” and “full of energy”, while “dragon” in English denotes “evil” and “terror”. Chinese use yellow books to refer to pornographic books, but English native speakers use blue books or adult books. Yellow pages means telephone book. The number 13, in Christian cultures often associated with bad luck. In Christian story, the number 13 has something to do with the traitor Judas who betrayed Jesus Christ. Western people usually avoid using this number. So in the hotel, we usually can not find the 13th floor or Room 13. Communicative culture Addressing. Addressing habit in China is different from that in western countries. In English speaking countries, Mr. usually refers to men and Miss. (unmarried) or Mrs. (married) usually refers to ladies. They can not be used with the given name. Usually speaking, Sir and Madam are used alone. what they wea