The present disclosure provides a slot monitoring method, an information transmission method, a user equipment and a network device. The slot monitoring method includes: monitoring UE group common PDCCH for a slot format indicator (SFI), and getting control information transmitted on the UE group common PDCCH. The SFI indicates to a UE slot formats of a number of consecutive N slots including a slot where the UE group common control information located, where N is positive integer.