在外语教学中,学生对英语文化背景知识的了解直接影响到语言应用能力的培养。在不同的文化背景中有不同的交际意义,缺少相关的文化背景知识,学生的学习英语的能力的提高势必受到很大限制。本文将对英语文化背景知识做简要介绍,以帮助学生增加对以英语为母语的国家的了解,增强对文化差异的敏感性,培养跨文化交际能力。 In foreign language teaching, students’ understanding of English cultural background knowledge has a direct impact on the development of language application ability. In different cultural backgrounds have different communicative implications, lack of relevant knowledge of the cultural background, the improvement of students’ ability to learn English is bound to be greatly restricted. This article will give a brief introduction of English cultural background knowledge to help students increase their understanding of English-speaking countries, enhance their sensitivity to cultural differences and cultivate intercultural communicative competence.