新课程要求教师转换角色,更新观念,并对教师的知识和科研能力等提出了新要求。培养学习兴趣和开发学生的学习潜能就是要变学生被动学习为主动学习。本文探讨了新课改英语课堂教学中如何激发学生的学习兴趣,活化教学内容,优化教学活动,从而提高初中英语课堂教学的效率。 The new curriculum requires teachers to change roles, update their concepts, and put forward new requirements on teachers’ knowledge and research capabilities. To cultivate interest in learning and to develop the learning potential of students is to change students’ passive learning into active learning. This article explores how to stimulate students’ interest in learning, activate teaching content and optimize teaching activities in the new curriculum English classroom teaching so as to improve the efficiency of English classroom teaching in junior middle school.