Abstract:As the reform of basis educational course constantly developed, the teaching structure and mode are changing. The key point of the course reform is to emphasize the training of students’ synthesized language using ability, and emphasize the learning interest, life experience and acknowledge level, advocate the learning methods of experience, practicing, participating, cooperation and communication. It aims at making the process of language learning to be the process of students’ active attitude and initiative thought and daring practicing, improving cultural consciousness and forming autonomic learning ability. Activity approach, as a form of classroom teaching, can provide practicing environment for teachers to achieve educational goal. It is propitious to unleash students’ strong suit, expand students’ knowledge, improve students’ intelligence and abilities and advance students’ overall development. Therefore, activity approach used in education can make students take part in class activities energetically, develop students’ personal potential in class activities, advance their individual and achieve their life value. This thesis aims to introduce the activity approach. With a questionnaire about the situation of the students’ learning attitude and the situation of activity approach used in rural school, it will introduce the advantages by using activity approach and how to use activity approach without any advanced facilities in rural area in our country by an example of teaching case.

Keywords: The Activity Approach; Rural Area; Classroom Teaching 

中文摘要:随着基础课程改革的不断发展，教学结构和教学模式也不断改变。课程改革的重点在于强调培养学生的综合语言运用能力，强调学习兴趣、生活经验，提倡经验、训练、参与、合作和交流的学习方法。它的目的是使语言学习的过程成为培养学生积极态度、主动思维、大胆练习，提高文化意识和形成自主学习能力的过程。活动教学法，作为一种课堂教学，为教师实现教育目标提供了练习环境。它有利于激发学生的优点，拓展学生的知识，提高学生的智力和能力，促进学生的全面发展。因此，活动教学法能使学生积极参与课堂活动，培养学生在课堂教学活动中的个人潜力，促进学生个性的发展和实现自己的人生价值。本文旨在介绍活动教学法。通过问卷调查、课堂观摩的形式，着重介绍在农村英语教学中使用英语活动教学法的优点，以及用一个课例来说明如何在没有先进教学设备的农村中学中使用活动教学法进行活动教学。

关键词：活动教学法；农村；课堂教学