The invention provides a process method for preparing ethyl tert-butyl ether. The process method comprises the following steps of: taking isobutene and ethanol as raw materials, and using a heteropoly acid/aluminum-based complex oxide catalyst, wherein the heteropoly acid/aluminum-based complex oxide catalyst takes a complex oxide as a carrier and takes heteropoly acid as an active component, the complex oxide is one or more of aluminum-based complex oxides in MgO-Al2O3, TiO2-Al2O3 and ZrO2-Al2O3, and the heteropoly acid is one or more of phosphotungstic acid, silicotungstic acid, arsenotungstic acid, germanotungtic acid, phosphomolybdic acid, silicomolybdic acid, arsenomolybdic acid, germanomolybdic acid and the like. According to the process method provided by the invention, the catalyst adopting the aluminum-based complex oxide to load the heteropoly acid is adopted, so that the shortcomings of inactivation of the catalyst and reduced conversion rate, which are caused by easiness in damaging the Keggin structure of the heteropoly acid of the heteropoly acid catalyst, easiness in loss of acid amount and difficulty in separation, can be overcome.