At this stage, multimedia has been increasingly widely used in college English education with the advantages of rich content, convenient updating and various forms, providing rich and novel resources for college English teaching. However, compared with the traditional classroom, the multimedia smart classroom relatively reduces the linkage between teachers and students, making it difficult to form emotional linkage between teachers and students in the classroom teaching situation, which seriously affects the teaching effect. In view of this situation, this paper studied the English multimedia smart classroom in the era of Internet of Things big data and the emotional linkage between teachers and students in classroom teaching. This paper conducted experiments and analysed on the emotional linkage between teachers and students from five aspects: students' learning enthusiasm, learning efficiency, academic level, teachers and students' extra-classroom linkage, and teachers' satisfaction. The experimental results showed that under the condition of active emotional linkage between teachers and students, students' English learning enthusiasm has increased by 6.76%, students' English academic level has increased by 4.08%, and students' satisfaction with teachers has increased by 4.92%. Positive emotional linkage between teachers and students can effectively improve students' English learning enthusiasm and English learning performance, and can increase students' recognition of teachers.