It is the fundamental task of education in China to train talents with right values and professional skills. For this purpose, value education should be carried out in all fields of basic education, vocational education and higher education. Strengthening value education through subject teaching is an important carrier and concrete practice to implement the fundamental task of socialist ideological education. The organic integration of value education with subject teaching is conducive to promoting virtue cultivation in all kinds of subjects. Combining value education with the teaching of English in Chinese schools meets the practical needs of cultivating foreign language personnel with both virtue and talent in the new era. Teachers, teaching materials and pedagogy are the basic elements of curriculum implementation, and the key factors for high quality value education in English teaching.