Abstract:

According to the national English curriculum, English learner’s interest, life experience and cognition should be considered in English-teaching activities. Therefore, situational English-teaching approach, along with cooperative English-learning approach and task-based English teaching approach, is regard as one of the three effective ways to help students acquire the language competence in English class.
   Situational approach is a common method applied in the primary school classroom，and it is an important method of teaching and learning. It can stimulate students' interest in learning English, in order to achieve the perfect results expected. In the English class of primary school，teachers may use many different kinds of teaching approach to improve students’ English learning.

Keywords: Primary school; English teaching; Situational approach

摘  要：

根据国家英语课程标准，英语教学活动要考虑到学生的兴趣、生活经验和其认知水平。因此，情景英语教学方法被看做是合作语言教学、任务型语言教学方法一样有效的英语教学方法，被广泛应用到英语教学活动中。它能有效地帮助小学生获得相应的语言表达能力。
情景语言教学在小学课堂中的应用普遍，同时也是一种重要语言教学方法，它可以激发小学生的英语学习兴趣，从而达到预期的英语学习效果。在小学英语课堂中，教师可灵活应用情景教学，综合其他教学方法，促进小学生的英语学习水平的提高。

关键词：小学；英语教学；情景教学

1 Introduction
    The situational approach method was established and prevailed in England from 1930s to 1960s. In the 1970s, it was introduced to China and well-known in the foreign language field. The widely known “New Concept English”was taught with this method.
    Chinese teaching approach fells strongly into one mode that schools, teachers and textbooks must be the classroom center, and the traditional teaching mode has not adapted to the requirement of modern education, and the modern English teaching requires a flexible teaching method urgently. In primary school, English teaching is at the initiation stage for children's learning English, and their interest is especially important during this period. Situational approach is very helpful to cultivate and raise students' interest in learning English.