The immersive virtual simulation teaching model based on virtual reality technology brings a brand new revolution to foreign language teaching and research. It helps students experience British and American cultural conventions and pragmatic communication rules in virtual communication scenes by constructing real language culture and language communication environment. This paper first analyzes the connotation, characteristics and theoretical basis of immersive virtual simulation technology, and then analyzes the significance of immersive virtual simulation teaching for students' English knowledge acquisition and skill training, stimulating students' English communication motivation, creating cross-cultural communication learning scenes, and overcoming students' English anxiety. Finally from four aspects, namely, virtual simulation technology to make multimodal teaching courseware, to build lifelike immersion language skills learning environment, to construct authentic cultural learning scene, to realize the construction of educational resources sharing field, the author proposes the construction and implementation strategies of English immersion virtual simulation teaching model.