The English Curriculum Standards for General Senior High Schools (2017) claims that themes provide the range of subject matter or context for language learning

and students 'exploration of the thematic meaning should be the most important content of language learning. The teaching activity design of English listening and speaking class should also be theme-based to help students explore and express the theme meaning in the process of listening input and oral output. However

in the current teaching of English listening and speaking in senior high schools

teachers' interpretation of listening texts is limited to the superficial level such as vocabulary and grammar

and lack of exploration of the meaning of the theme

which is not conductive to the cultivation of students' core competence. Moreover

the transition of listening and speaking activities is not natural enough

resulting in students cannot transfer and use language knowledge in the new context. Based on this

this paper aims to explain the design principles of the teaching activities of English listening and speaking based on thematic meaning and discuss how to carry out it effectively so as to offer some advices for English listening and speaking teaching.