作业是英语教学的重要环节之一,是课堂教学的延续和深化。但作为备课的最后一个环节,作业设计总是在不经意间被教师忽略。因此必须改革传统的英语作业形式,重新全面认识作业的意义,优化英语作业的设计。作者摭谈优化英语作业设计的四方面:分层性、趣味性、多样性、拓展性。只要教师从学生的实际出发,精心设计作业,就能有效减轻学生学习英语的负担,培养学生的认知能力、自学能力和创新思维能力,从而使学生达到热爱学习英语、高效学习英语的目的。 Homework is one of the most important parts of English teaching, which is the continuation and deepening of classroom teaching. However, as the last part of the lesson preparation, homework design is always inadvertently ignored by teachers. Therefore, it is necessary to reform the traditional forms of English assignments, to re-understand the significance of assignments and to optimize the design of English assignments. The author discusses four aspects of optimizing English homework design: hierarchy, fun, diversity, and expansibility. As long as teachers design their homework from the reality of students, they can effectively reduce their burden of learning English and cultivate students’ cognitive abilities, self-learning abilities and innovative thinking skills so that students can enjoy learning English and learning English efficiently.