Base on a case study on the specialized course for English majors — “Selected Readings from English Newspapers and Magazines”, we investigated how to integrate ideological and political education into English courses to nurture students’ moral value and patriotism, and to broaden their academic vision, focusing on acceptability of the teaching model. The content-based instruction model (CBI) was intertwined with ideological and political education elements to cultivate students’ critical thinking in journalistic reading. A post-course questionnaire was designed to analyze students’ feedbacks on the ideological and political education elements as well as effects of the teaching model. The results showed wide acceptability among students and efficacy in integrating implicit ideological and political education into the CBI model of specialized courses for English majors. Combination of CBI and implicit ideological and political education serves as a stepping stone in promoting ideological and political education of English courses.