The purpose of this research was to describe the teaching strategies used by the teacher in teaching English and the reason why the teacher chose those strategies at MA Al-Mukhlishin Antibar Mempawah. The method used in this research was a case study. The data was collected through an interview. The result revealed that the strategies used by the teacher in teaching English were listening to a song, listening to story, making and performing dialogue, storytelling, role-playing, dictating, answering the quiz, and giving a review. The reasons why the teacher chose these strategies were because they were more effective to motivate the students and facilitate the teacher to approach the students personally so that the students become more enthusiastic in learning English. The teacher used different strategies depends on the material taught to the students.
