新教材打破了多年以来中学英语以翻译为主的传统教学模式,把教材内容和语法结构融于情境对话之中,改变了学生只会写不会讲,只会背不会用的传统英语教学状况,有利于提高学生独立思考能力和英语的实际运用能力。笔者对比新旧教材,认为新教材主要有以下几个特点: The new textbook breaks through the traditional teaching mode of English-centered translation in middle school for many years. It melts the content of teaching materials and grammatical structures into situational dialogues, and changes the traditional English teaching that students can only write and can not speak English The situation is conducive to improving students’ ability of thinking independently and using English effectively. The author compares old and new textbooks, that the new textbook has the following characteristics: