当前教育改革的主旋律是回归生活。英语学科与生活紧密联系,学生学习语言的终极目的在于运用。由此可见,以生活作为教学指导在英语教学中尤为重要。从目前来看,英语课堂教学缺乏生活化的教学,因而教学实效性不高,课堂教学犹如一潭死水。要想激活并优化初中英语教学,教师必须以生活为指导,将生活元素融进英语教学,使课堂教学回归生活。一、以生活为指导,优化课堂导入课堂导入作为教学中的重要环节之一,对整体教学 The main theme of the current education reform is to return to life. English subjects and life are closely linked, the ultimate goal of students to learn the language is to use. This shows that life as a teaching guide in English teaching is particularly important. From the current point of view, the English classroom teaching lack of life-oriented teaching, teaching effectiveness is not high, classroom teaching is like a pool of stagnant water. To activate and optimize junior high school English teaching, teachers must take life as a guide, integrate life elements into English teaching, and return classroom teaching to life. First, life as a guide to optimize the classroom into the classroom as one of the important aspects of teaching, teaching on the whole