Abstract: In foreign countries, the research on classroom activities is comparatively rich and the teacher-student optimal activity for classroom teaching is part of that research and has been to some extent developed. By contrast, there has been very few of relevant research up date. This paper starts with the discussion of the teaching methods and then presents a comparative study of the responses of the teachers and the students to the optimal activities in college English classroom teaching, and finally expects that the research will provide some inspiration to the layout of the teaching syllabus.