Abstract—The current English teaching can not meet the needs of the Chinese students to quickly improve their ability of English speaking, the use of English movie teaching model shows its unique advantages in this field. Based on the study of language input hypothesis, output Hypothesis and language social communication theory, the author puts English movie into the English teaching activities. By using movies in the English class, Chinese college students can improve their listening and speaking skills, they can enlarge their vocabulary knowledge and they can even make their pronunciation and intonation better.
In the new century, the traditional teaching way of concentrating on offering the basic knowledge and skills of a language via transfer of grammatical knowledge and explanation of vocabulary usages couldn’t meet the society’s need, so it has gradually been replaced by the more modern effective means and methods. In the college English teaching, create the best learning environment is very important in practicing oral English, English movie could help English teaching and learning, because it is based on the features of language learning and teaching, taking culture background into consideration. So using English movies in teaching is an effective teaching method which provides students with a better carrier, to enable students to learn the language in a real language environment and find out the cultural differences between Chinese and Western, then students’ motivation can be aroused, and flexibility in real occasions will be cultivated. therefore enhancing the ability of foreign language communication and application.