摘　要

随着21世纪的来临，以多媒体和国际互联网为代表的当代信息技术，正以惊人的速度改变着人们的生存方式和学习方式。信息技术是当前各类学校教育的重要内容，也是教育改革的重要技术手段。
运用PowerPoint课件辅助小学英语教学有利于提高学习效率，突破重点、难点，优化课堂教学，丰富教学内容，为学生营造一个开放、有趣的新的教学环境。然而PowerPoint课件的设计也应遵循必要性原则、紧扣新课程标准的原则、科学性和实用性原则，恰当选用PowerPoint课件制作软件平台，综合使用多种素材并认真进行测试、修改，结合传统教学的互动性，扬长避短，完美地运用在小学英语教学中。

关键词：多媒体；小学英语；计算机辅助教学
 
Abstract

As the 21st century comes, as the representative of contemporary Information Technology, multimedia and the Internet are changing people's ways of life and learning at a high speed. Information Technology is an important part of school education in all kinds of schools. It’s also an important technical means of education reform.
Using the PowerPoint courseware in primary school English teaching will help improve the efficiency of learning, highlight the key and difficult point, optimize classroom teaching and enrich the teaching content. It also creates an open and interesting new teaching environment for students. However, PowerPoint courseware design should follow the principle of necessity, closely linked to the new curriculum standards. It should be scientific and practical. In addition, selecting proper PowerPoint courseware authoring software platform, using a variety of materials synthetically, seriously test, modifying and combining interactive communication in traditional teaching are also very important. Therefore, the PowerPoint courseware can be perfectly used in the primary school English teaching.

Key words: multimedia; English in primary school; computer-aided teaching

1 Introduction
This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of PPT. Nowadays, using PPT in primary English teaching has been a popular trend. It not only changes the traditional teaching methods, but also make students learn better. But there are still some disadvantages. So how to balance the advantages and disadvantages and make full use of it has been an immediate issue.
Since the reform and opening-up policy, the communication and cooperation between China and other countries are constantly strengthening. English has been a worldwide language whose status is continuously improving. Therefore, the English teaching in our whole nation shows prosperity, and in addition, the society, and parents and school have a high enthusiasm of setting up English class in primary school.