Interest is the best teacher. For students, interest can push them to explore things, give full play to their initiative in learning, overcome various difficulties and achieve the best results. The key to English teaching in middle schools is to make students interested. The cultivation of interest means that teachers can use various lively teaching methods to attract students' interest, arouse their enthusiasm and initiative in learning, stimulate their thirst for knowledge, and finally improve the efficiency of English learning. Keywords middle school students; English teaching; How to cultivate high school students' interest in English learning? Interest is the best teacher. For students, interest can promote them to explore things and study problems. It can also give full play to students' initiative in learning and help them overcome all difficulties. Therefore, students will achieve the best results. The key to English teaching in senior high school is to cultivate and train students' interest in English learning. In order to arouse their learning initiative and stimulate their learning motivation, teachers must use various lively teaching methods to attract students' attention to English. Finally, students will improve their English learning efficiency. Keywords high school students; English teaching; Russian writer Tolstoy said: "Successful teaching needs not compulsion, but stimulating students' interest in learning. "In the process of learning, many students don't want to learn English. They just study for exams and have no interest at all, which makes English teaching face great resistance. At present, great achievements have been made in English teaching reform in middle schools, but the phenomenon of exam-oriented education is still serious. Teachers focus on teaching, neglecting to stimulate students' positive thinking and cultivate students' ability to use language, which leads to inefficient teaching. Then, in English teaching, how can we stimulate students' interest in learning, so that every student can fully feel the fun of English classroom learning? This paper will try to explore the viewpoint of stimulating middle school students' interest in learning English. 1. It is an indisputable fact that it has become an international language to attach importance to students' understanding of the importance of learning English. English, as an international language, is playing an increasingly important role in China. On the one hand, in teaching, students should understand the reasons why the country regards English as one of the three main courses, and make clear the importance of English and the necessity of learning English well. 2 1 century is a new era of social life informatization and economic system globalization. English has become an indispensable tool in social life and international communication. In a sense, mastering English is actually grasping the opportunity of participation and development; On the other hand, Piaget, a Swedish psychologist, said, "We are interested in an object because it can meet our needs. "As a teacher, students should feel that learning English well is of great benefit to their future career choices and careers. Only with profound ideological understanding can students have a great thirst for knowledge in English and thus become interested in English. 2. Help students to establish a correct concept of learning and cultivate their self-confidence. 2. 1 Teachers should attach importance to cultivating students' correct learning mentality and establish a correct view of learning from the beginning. In this link, we can start with the analysis of the international and domestic situation, and also focus on personal future to cultivate students' mentality of "learning for themselves first"; Reward the mentality of parents and the country; Modest mentality; A successful attitude; The accumulated mentality of "progress every day 1%" has stimulated students' sense of ownership in learning and given them confidence that I can learn English well, thus strengthening their belief in learning English well and their will to overcome difficulties, so that they can overcome all difficulties and work hard in the learning process. 2.2 praise more. It is very important for every student, so we should pay special attention to giving students a sense of success, because "the greater the success, the greater the interest and the greater the motivation". This is especially true for underachievers. Whenever they make a little progress, even if their success is only to write a correct sentence, the teacher will seize the opportunity to praise them to encourage their confidence in learning English. The survey shows that when students succeed in a certain field, they will feel as happy as they have completed a major mission, and then have a cordial feeling for English. At this time, they will give back a huge internal driving force, driving them to the second and third success, thus forming a stable and sustained interest. In short, teachers should attach importance to the cultivation of students' self-confidence in the process of English teaching, and try their best to affirm and appreciate students' achievements, advantages and reasonable factors in their thinking. 3. Establish a new teacher-student relationship and cultivate interest in learning. In English teaching, a relaxed, pleasant and harmonious classroom atmosphere can enable students to accept new knowledge with a happy mood. Modern teaching research has proved that establishing a harmonious relationship between teachers and students is a necessary condition for the smooth development of teaching and an important prerequisite for mobilizing students' interest in learning. To this end, teachers should strive to achieve the following two points. First of all, teachers should strive to create a good classroom ecological atmosphere. Teaching is a process of emotional and ideological exchange between teachers and students, that is, emotional interaction. In order to better realize emotional interaction, teachers need to create a relaxed classroom atmosphere and a harmonious relationship between teachers and students, which is called "trusting their teachers". A large number of facts show that if students like a teacher, they will be interested in the teacher's class, pay special attention to it, and their interest will be improved and their grades will be greatly improved. If teachers and students can't have emotional interaction, students are prone to rebellious psychology and even give up learning. Such examples are not uncommon. As a foreign language, students will certainly encounter difficulties in learning English. Therefore, as a teacher, we should give priority to encouragement in teaching, fully affirm students' efforts, stimulate their creativity and enhance their sense of accomplishment. Evaluate students at different levels with different standards, such as "Very good! How clever you are! You are excellent! "Let students feel the care of teachers, let them feel the joy of success, and establish confidence in participating in English classroom activities. In this way, every student in the class is activated, and a relaxed and happy classroom atmosphere is established. Secondly, teachers should actively establish normal emotional communication channels. Middle school students are in a transitional period of psychological development. When they study, they choose not only the content of study, but also the feelings of teachers and students. In view of this psychological feature, teachers should care about students' lives and participate in students' collective activities. For example, teachers should often go deep into students, understand their hobbies and emotional changes, answer all the questions in their study and life, and help students with a clear aim. Let the students realize that all teachers' efforts are aimed at making them master English, an indispensable language art in the future, faster and better. Ideological understanding will inevitably strengthen mutual interest and trust between teachers and students, and create a virtuous circle situation in which good teacher-student relationship and positive two-way cooperative teaching relationship promote each other. 4. Use modern multimedia equipment for teaching. Tape recorder is a common audio-visual equipment. 2 1 century today, multimedia teaching, as a combination of audio-visual media and computers, has the characteristics of illustrations and vivid teaching environment, which makes boring learning interesting and complex abstract knowledge vivid and easy to understand. It changes the single teaching mode of teachers, not only highlights the central role of students, but also strengthens the leading role of teachers, so it is widely used in teaching. Doing so can effectively attract students' attention and improve their enthusiasm for participating in the classroom. At the same time, it can save time, increase students' practice, broaden their horizons, effectively promote the consolidation of language knowledge, improve classroom efficiency and enhance students' interest. 5. Try to organize classroom teaching in English to stimulate students' interest in learning. The purpose of English teaching is to cultivate students' ability to use English. This ability can only be cultivated quickly when you are exposed to English and immersed in using it. At present, the classroom is still the main place for China students to get in touch with foreign languages. Usually insist on organizing teaching in English, starting with the simplest everyday language, with appropriate gestures and expressions to deepen understanding. Good morning, everyone What day is it today? What is the weather like today? Are you ready? Read after me. It is best to learn a language in a certain context and atmosphere. Organizing teaching with standardized, concise and fluent oral English in class can set off the classroom atmosphere. At the same time, cooperative and communicative language training activities should be organized as much as possible to train students' ability to analyze, summarize and express language information, so as to stimulate interest, activate thinking and improve language perception and output ability. 6. Pay attention to the infiltration of Chinese and western cultures and seek interest through differences. Because different nationalities live in different material, social and religious environments, deep-rooted cultures with national characteristics have emerged and developed. Teachers should consciously infiltrate the social culture, customs and habits of western countries into classroom teaching at an appropriate time, which not only cultivates students' awareness and ability of cross-cultural communication, but also satisfies students' curiosity and thirst for knowledge. In fact, many students can't appreciate the sense of humor of English stories because of their lack of understanding of foreign cultural background. Some customs and cultures in English-speaking countries are often very different from ours. Therefore, when teachers pay attention to the comparison between China culture and English-speaking countries in the teaching process, students' psychology is often full of fun, they accept new things with joy, and interest arises at the historic moment in such an atmosphere. Teaching practice has proved that teachers should cultivate students' positive self-concept in teaching, reasonably choose teaching strategies and methods, create a certain language environment for students, and let students learn languages in various activity situations. Students can acquire knowledge in a harmonious and relaxed atmosphere in each class, and feel that learning English is a pleasure and can also improve teaching efficiency.