高职英语教学以培养学生的英语应用能力、自主学习能力及综合文化素养为主要目标。“微课”作为一种新型的资源形式,具有其主题突出、短小精悍、生动有趣等特点,尤其适用于高职英语教学,并成为传统课堂教学的有力补充。本文以《新编实用英语Ⅱ》相关单元为范例,从教学内容、制作方式等方面研究微课设计开发的要点,并通过教学效果的对比,得出高职英语微课教学的优势。 English Teaching in Higher Vocational Education aims at cultivating students’ English ability, self - learning ability and comprehensive cultural accomplishment. As a new form of resources, “Microcosmic ” has the characteristics of its prominent theme, short and pithy, vivid and interesting. It is especially suitable for English teaching in higher vocational colleges and has become a powerful complement to traditional classroom teaching. Taking the relevant units of “New Practical English Ⅱ” as an example, this paper studies the main points of micro-class design and development from the aspects of teaching contents and production methods, and draws the advantage of teaching micro-class in higher vocational colleges through the comparison of teaching effects.