Culture is very important for a country and a nation. Ancient poetry, as an important part of Chinese culture, is of great significance to the Chinese nation. The ancient poetry with beautiful quality has always been an important part of Chinese teaching, especially in senior high school. In recent years, China has attached more importance to the status of excellent ancient poetry in Chinese curriculum, but the current teaching of ancient poetry is not satisfactory. After the "Chinese Curriculum Standard for Ordinary Senior High School (2017 Edition)" was issued, "Learning task group", as an important part of it, has attracted much attention. "Learning task Group" reconstructs the curriculum content of Ordinary Senior High school Chinese, and also represents a brand new learning concept. However, the teaching practice of "learning task group" is faced with many difficulties, and it is more difficult to use "learning task group" in the teaching of ancient poetry due to the particularity of ancient poetry.

      This paper mainly adopts literature research method, case analysis method, questionnaire survey method and other research methods. First for the college entrance examination of students, teaching material usage, the ancient Chinese poems study present situation, the teacher analyze the four aspects: the teaching of ancient Chinese poems, found that the current teaching of ancient Chinese poems was not well implement the learning of new concept, teachers still stick to the traditional, the subjectivity of the students didn't get to play, and learning effect. Then, this paper analyzes the reform of contemporary Chinese education and the teaching of ancient poetry, focusing on the teaching value of ancient poetry, the development and reform of Chinese education law and the ability level of learning tasks related to ancient poetry under the reform of Chinese curriculum in the new century. This paper clarifies the value of the teaching of contemporary ancient poetry, expounds that "learning task group" is the contemporary product of the development and reform of Chinese education law, and analyzes the ability level of learning task group related to ancient poetry. Finally, this paper expounds the teaching of ancient poetry in senior high school based on learning task group, centering on the teaching of ancient poetry in the context of learning task group and the whole teaching of the unit. In terms of single teaching, the characteristics of single teaching under the background of learning task group are highlighted by comparing the previous single teaching of ancient poetry with the single teaching under the background of learning task group. In the aspect of unit integrated teaching, the paper expounds the challenges faced by unit integrated teaching due to the way of textbook arrangement, and then expounds the ideas of teaching design. Taking the selective compulsory teaching of the first unit of ancient Poetry as an example, the paper designs advanced learning activities centering on the core tasks of the unit. The design style includes design background, learning objectives, teaching implementation, teaching evaluation and so on.