A communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving configuration information of at least one frequency resource group, and receiving, by using at least one beam, a downlink signal on a corresponding frequency resource in the at least one frequency resource group, wherein each frequency resource group comprises at least two frequency resources, each frequency resource corresponds to at least one beam, and the configuration information comprises an identifier of each frequency resource group and an identifier of each frequency resource; and when it is detected based on the downlink signal that a beam associated with a first frequency resource in the frequency resource group fails, sending a beam recovery request on a second frequency resource in the frequency resource group. Correspondingly, a corresponding apparatus is further disclosed.