Abstract
Based on the multimodal theory, this article designs a theme teaching in one unit of college English course ideology and politics which is about" Spend or save - The student's dilemma". The new instructional design incorporates President Mao ’s quotations, President Xi ’s speaking and habit of saving, and celebrity saving stories in regular college English teaching, and adds three specific multimodal designs of teachers’ teaching, students’ learning, and teaching evaluation. Multi-modal teaching mainly performs as various modal angles other than language and pictures, practical cases in teaching design.