“减轻学生负担,提高教学质量”是当前学科教学面临的一个重要课题,而学生的课后作业则是“轻负高质”的重要板块之一。课后作业是英语课堂的延伸,同时也是英语教学的重要环节。然而在现在的英语课后作业布置过程中,存在着比较大的弊端,本文以此为缘起,以现行的“轻负高质”教学目标为导向,开展了对如何优化课后作业的研究。 “To reduce the burden of students and improve the quality of teaching” is an important subject facing the current subject teaching, and the students’ homework is one of the important segments of “light and negative quality”. Homework is an extension of the English class, but also an important part of English teaching. However, there are still some drawbacks in the current assignment of homework after English class. Based on this reason, this article takes the existing teaching goal of “Light, Negative and High Quality” as guidance, the study.