从中学英语教学中所存在的偏重英语知识的积累而学生交际能力普遍较差的问题为出发点,强调英语文化背景在英语教学中的重要性。通过分析汉英两种语言在文化背景、风俗习惯等方面的典型差异,找出在日常英语对话中经常妨碍交流和产生误解的问题,并提出加强英语文化背景教学的几个解决问题的办法。 Starting from the problem of the accumulation of English knowledge in middle school English teaching, which is generally worse than the students’ communicative competence, it emphasizes the importance of English cultural background in English teaching. By analyzing the typical differences between Chinese and English in terms of cultural background, customs and other aspects, this paper tries to find out the problems that often hinder communication and misunderstandings in everyday English dialogue and proposes several solutions to the problem of strengthening the teaching of English cultural background.