“教学的艺术全在于如何恰当地提出问题和巧妙地引导学生作答”。可见提问在教学过程中具有举足轻重的地位,课堂提问的设计对于激发学生的学习热情、提高学生的思维能力至关重要。那么究竟如何优化英语课堂提问呢?结合个人的课堂教学实践,我认为要精心设计课堂提问,必须在以下四个方面多做努力。一、把握时机,当问则问,注意实效性。课堂提问什么时候该问,什么地方该问,备课时就要设计好。对授课的复习性提问,要起到承上启下的作用,既要让学 “The art of teaching is all about how to ask questions and skillfully guide students to answer questions.” Visible questions in the teaching process plays a decisive role in the design of the classroom questions to stimulate student enthusiasm for learning and improve students’ ability to think is essential. So how to optimize the English classroom questions? Combined with personal classroom teaching practice, I think to carefully designed classroom questions, we must do more in the following four aspects. First, seize the opportunity, when asked, pay attention to effectiveness. When to ask questions in the classroom, where to ask, when preparing lessons should be designed. Review questions on lectures, to play the role of link, it is necessary to learn