Abstract: Courses for ideological and political education are the focus and direction of curent Einglishcurriculum reform in vocational colleges. The ideological and political education in English coursesshould follow the characteristies of “ Cultivate People Through Culture”. Based on Wen Qiufang's Pro-duction-0riented Approach (POA) theory, this paper takes the teaching of Unit 4 Career paths in NewEra Professional English-General English 2 as an example to carry out the teaching design of “ Courses forIdeological and Political Education” in vocational English. t integrates ideological and political elementsinto the three processes of motivating, enabling and assessing respectively, implement the task of foste.ring character and civic virtue in practice. This paper analyzes the feasibility of applying each link of theProduction-Oriented Approach to voeational English teaching practice and explores elfective teachingpaths, then evaluates and reflects on the leaming effect of students, provide reference suggestions for theapplication of the Production-0riented Approach in ideological and political education in vocational Engish courses.

Key words: production-oriented approach, courses for ideological and political education, foster charac-ter and civic virtue, teaching practice