As a supplement of higher education in our country, higher vocational colleges cultivate plentiful talents for our modernization construction. Recently, with the development of globalization and the cooperative osculation with foreign countries, most employers require higher for the graduates. In this case, the English language teaching of vocational college needs to keep pace of the times and cultivate satisfactory practical talents. This article illustrates by the example of a typical problem in English teaching, making a serious reflection on the aspects of fundamental conceptions, basic principles and teaching strategies, and proposes some feasible suggestions.