学习英语,从某种意义上说就是学习英语国家的文化。在初中英语教学中,我们如果忽视了对西方文化背景的介绍,就无法让学生真正学好英语,我们的英语教学也注定不是成功的教学。这就好比我们学习汉语,如果我们缺少对中国文化的了解,你就不能说你掌握了汉语这门语言。同样道理,如果我们重视并了解了西方国家的历史 Learning English, in a sense, is learning the culture of English-speaking countries. In junior high school English teaching, if we ignore the introduction of the western cultural background, we can not make students really learn English, our English teaching is doomed to not be successful teaching. It’s like we learn Chinese, and if we lack understanding of Chinese culture, you can not say that you have mastered the language of Chinese. By the same token, if we value and understand the history of Western countries