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一口气推荐100本原版书:向老师的Zero to Hero书单

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有不少小伙伴咨询英文原版书的清单,希望能从简单的读物开始步步为营,实现高质量的 可理解阅读输入 。我列出了这些年教学过程中的原版书,按照初中高阶的顺序,从词汇量1500的基础就能进入的“儿童小说”逐步进阶到“文史哲学术大部头”。我特意将书按照路线图的方式展现,方便大家按照自己现有的语言水平切入。


原版阅读要超越简单绘本,但也要从儿童青少年读物开始。 为什么国人再怎么努力学英文,离地道表达还是隔着一层天花板? 有一个理论:大多数人并没有循序渐进地阅读英文儿童读物,而是一开始就接触比较成人化的读物,比如《新概念》和各种程式化的教材。那些故事简单却原汁原味的英文,正好是国人英语学习的一片失落荒野。换句话说,英语能力的缺失就是 英文原版"童年"的缺失 。成年人学好英文,需要重访那块缺失的“童年”,从合适的儿童青少年读物起步。儿童与青少年更是如此。

除了原版阅读,词汇学习也是一条可靠的进路。英语学习,不存在 宏观层面的 “阅读” 微观层面的 “词汇” 对立,两者应该 螺旋式并进、兼容并举。系统 提升词汇后,应该立马进入原版精读之旅;原版精读遭遇瓶颈,就该静下心来打磨一把词汇的屠龙刀。

我12年的教学经历,总结成一句话,就是帮学员在词汇和原版阅读间寻找 多重均衡 。到了某个临界点可以给词汇学习松绑,主要通过大量精读原版书积累;而碰到下一座语言认知的高峰,专攻词汇又会为原版阅读保驾护航。磨刀不误砍柴工,没有一劳永逸的直线突破,有的是双螺旋并进的多重均衡。


原版书籍进阶参考如下,课程可以在 Zero to Hero英文原版书单 | 25门导师进阶方案(最新!) 了解。



初阶1-8级: 前托福阶段


初阶一级

精读 - 演讲初级 - 启蒙班

培训目标

通过解读脍炙人口的儿童小说,帮助从未接触过原版读物的孩子启蒙;帮助接触过原版读物的孩子巩固兴趣,提升语言营养的吸收效率。训练演讲,为未来参加全国演讲辩论大赛,申请美高、美本启蒙。

(学员基本要求:用 http://testyourvocab.com/ 网站, 测出来词汇量1500以上)


精读书目

The Enormous Crocodile ( 40页,蓝思分级:410L)

The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid greedy grumptious brute who loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the other animals have had enough of his cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the better of this foul fiend , once and for all!

The Magic Finger

( 40页,蓝思分级:450L)

This is the story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry she zaps a punishment on them with her magic flashing finger!

Fantastic Mr. Fox

(96页,蓝思分级:600L)

Mr. Fox is surrounded, and he's going to have to come up with a truly fantastic

plan to dig himself out of trouble this time.


The BFG (201页,蓝思分级:720L)

"Dream is full of mystery and magic. Do not try to understand them."



初阶二级

精读 - 演讲初级基础精品班

培训目标

帮助不常接触原版读物的孩子夯实基础,巩固兴趣,培养精读的习惯。老师给孩子录制的演讲进行反馈,指导台风和肢体语言,提升演讲内容的逻辑性和趣味性。学员学会写简单的演讲稿。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量1800以上,一般在1800-3000)


精读书目

The Happy Prince and Other Stories (96页;蓝思分级:650L)

"It is not to Egypt that I am going," said the Swallow. "I am going to the House of Death. Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?"

And he kissed the Happy Prince on the lips, and fell down dead at his feet."


Esio Trot (64页;蓝思分级:840L)

A shy man, Mr Hoppy has only the courage for polite conversation with Mrs Silver, as she tends her pet tortoise Alfie, on the balcony below. But, when he learns that her dearest wish is for Alfie to grow bigger, he hatches a plan involving a giant pair of metal claws and 140 tortoises.


James and the Giant Peach (144页;蓝思分级:870L)

"Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything. Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it."



初阶三级

精读-演讲基础提升班

培训目标

帮助刚刚接触过原版读物的孩子巩固基础和兴趣,提升语言营养的吸收效率;通过刻意的演讲训练,提升演讲内容和表现力,为未来申请美高、美本铺路搭桥。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量1800以上, 一般在1800-3500


精读书目

Horrid Henry Reads A Book (76页; 蓝思分级:480L)

A reading competition? No way is Henry taking part in a reading contest. That is, until he hears the prize is a family trip to a theme park. Henry is determined to win ...but how on earth is he going to read all those books?


Horrid Henry and The Zombie Vampire (95页;蓝思分级:630L)

Henry is up to his usual mischief. Four new stories in which Horrid Henry terrorizes his classmates at a school sleepover in the museum; plays with Perfect Peter and tricks him int o handing over all his money...


The Little Prince (118页;蓝思分级:710L)

"Men," said the little prince, "set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round”.


点击欣赏 Matilda 音乐剧曲目: When I Grow Up

Matilda (240页;蓝思分级:840L)

" Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”


"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."



初阶四级

精读-写作初级提速班

培训目标

提升学员精读原版小说的能力,完成420多页的原版阅读,为孩子积累阅读信心;通过精细精准的私下反馈,提升演讲稿和演讲展示的能力,训练书评写作。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量2000以上,一般在2000-4000)

精读书目

Dirty Beasts (32页;蓝思分级:740L)

In "Dirty Beasts" we meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfully comic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl. There is the toad that jumps to France - at his own peril ; the pig who ponders the meaning of life; the anteater who gets the wrong end of the stick ; and many more...


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

(181页;蓝思分级:810L)

"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."



Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (208页;蓝思分级:940L)

Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some enormous meaning...It was like that now. At the name of Aslan each one of the children felt something jump in it's inside. (Ch. 7)



初阶五级

精读-写作能力晋级班

培训目标

帮助接触过原版读物的孩子提升阅读质量,学会精读和批判性思考;结合精读和老师提供的思考题,写小论文,为未来美高、美本铺路。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量2500以上,一般在2500-4500)


精读书目

The Witches (208页;蓝思分级:740L)

This story is about "real witches" - who dress in ordinary clothes, look like ordinary women, but loathe all children. The seven-year-old hero and his grandmother are pitted against them at a witches convention, at which the witches are plotting to exterminate every child in England.


Animal Farm (144页;蓝思分级:1170L)

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."



时事导读

每堂课开始的前10分钟,导读权威外媒时事文章或知识分享视频(如:《纽约时报》,《经济学人》,BBC,《卫报》,VOX,SNL等),开拓视野,理解时事脉搏。



初阶六级

精读-写作发音技能初级班

培训目标

学员接触“思辨性”原版小说,熟读现象级百老汇剧本,完成460页的精读,提升阅读信心与品味;演讲训练、书评写作以及发音、说唱集训;提高语音质量,训练英语的节奏感,做到“演”与“讲”的完美结合。

(学员基本要:测出来词汇量2800以上;一般在3000-6000的范围内)


精读书目

Revolting Rhymes (50页;蓝思分级:750L

Do you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happily ever after, and that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf? Think again! Premier storyteller Roald Dahl twists the fate of six favorite fairy tales, in this picture book edition with vibrant new cover art by Quentin Blake. Fairy tales have never been more revolting!


The Giver (240页;蓝思分级:760L)

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the quintessential dystopian novel, followed by its remarkable companions, Gathering Blue , Messenger , and Son.


Hamilton (171页;研读剧本 + 历史背景知识扩展 + 训练发音和说唱)

“人物的戏剧性的精髓,包括他膨胀的野心、聪明的头脑、对政绩的痴迷、奋发努力的天性、滴溜乱转的眼神,以及出现失误的判断力,都被表现的淋漓尽致。”


——历史学家罗恩-切尔诺夫(Ron Chernow)

点击欣赏经典曲目




初阶七级

精读-演讲写作初级终结班

培训目标

帮助接触过原版读物的孩子提升阅读质量,提升精读和词汇能力;训练即兴演讲;结合即兴演讲视频和老师的反馈,写演讲稿。为未来美高、美本铺路。

(学员基本要:测出来词汇量2800以上;一般在3000-6000的范围内)


精读书目

The Twits (96页;蓝思分级:750L)

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it looks so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it."


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (122页;蓝思分级:970L)

Evoking life in a small Mississippi River town, Tom Sawyer is Twain's hymn to the secure and fantastic world of boyhood and adventure.


The Call of the Wild

(96页;蓝思分级:1120L)

"But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come." ( Ch. 7)



初阶八级

精读演讲-高效习惯初级班

培训目标

以高效习惯为导向,激发潜能为目标;两本小说,300多页的强化精读训练;一本非小说,系统地略读,对应自控力和高效习惯训练;即兴演讲和已备主题演讲训练,融入书评写作。

(学员基本要:测出来词汇量3000以上;一般在3000-6500的范围)


精读书目

Number the Stars 《细数繁星》(Lois Lowry, 160页)

It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.


The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway, 154页)

"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."


"Every day above earth is a good day."


The 7 Habits of Highly EffectivePeople

(Stephen R. Covey,432页)

1.Be proactive;

2.Begin with the end in mind;

3.Put first thing first;

4.Think win-win;

5.Seek first to understand, then to be understood;

6.Synergize;

7.Sharpen the saw.




中阶1-6级: 托福进行时


中阶一级

精读演讲写作-中级文史启蒙班


培训目标

500多页的阅读量。通过解读一篇脍炙人口的短篇小说,一部史诗级的长篇小说与一部经典音乐剧本,再现法国大革命以来,影响当今世界格局的三个重要时段,提升学员的历史认知,为今后的社科学习铺垫。课程融汇原版精读,课堂报告演讲以及书评写作,三方面提高学生输入输出能力。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量3500以上;一般在3500-6500的范围内。)


精读书目

Shooting an Elephant ( George Orwell)

向老师带领学员挖掘奥威尔一生最出色的短篇小说,解读大英帝国的殖民史与长日将尽的命运,从虚构小说的窗口窥见真实历史背景。


The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini, 400页)

向老师带领学员深挖冷战历史和中东当下格局的成因。在细腻的情节展开中重现 文明与国家冲突 的宏大主题。


Les Miserables

(Victor Hugo,106页)

研习《悲惨世界》剧本,从语言与历史背景入手,将法国大革命至七月王朝这四十多年的动荡时娓娓道来,为学员打开 历史理性 (historical rationality) 的窗口。

赏悲惨世界经典曲目




中阶二级

精读-写作中级起点班


培训目标

提升英文原版书籍精读能力,锻造领导力性格,提炼思维能力;结合原版书籍,进行书评式写作训练。为未来美高、美本铺路。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量3500以上;一般在3500-6500的范围内。)


精读书目

Dreams from My Father (442页;蓝思分级:950L)

这部自传,文字朴实清新,故事真实动人,被普遍认为是美国有史以来政治家独著的自传中的上乘之作。奥巴马的故事,是一部美国梦的实现,更是一部关于身份传承和种族问题的反思。我觉得,对于精读和性格锻造,很少有作品具有《我父亲的梦想》的伟力。于是,今年9月,我将花上8周,带领学员参透这一部杰作。

——向老师荐语



The Time Machine (128页;蓝思分级:1010L)

When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony.


世界性🌍议题拓展

每堂课花15分钟,进行一次世界性重大议题的拓展讨论。向老师会结合自己做的对话专访,和学员分享一些世界重大议题,如非洲的制度建设和中国的角色,ISIS崛起的原因,全球气候变暖议题,文明的冲突等等。该部分的设置为领导力的培养做准备。



中阶三级

精读-写作哲学思辨班


培训目标

提升英文原版书籍精读能力,提升思辨能力,浸软西方哲学,系统了解西方思想史;结合原版书籍,进行课堂演讲展示与书评写作训练。为未来美高、美本打下坚实基础。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量4500以上)


精读书目

Sophie's World 《苏菲的世界》(544页;蓝思分级:1000L)

14岁的少女苏菲某天放学回家,发现了神秘的一封信。—你是谁?—世界从哪里来?就这样,在某个神秘导师的指引下,苏菲开始思索,从古希腊到康德、从祁克果到佛洛佛德等各位大师所思考的根本问题。


Stories of Your Life (53页)

Chiang's rigorously imagined stories invite us to question our understanding of the universe and our place in it.


The prophet (96页,蓝思分级990L

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. .



中阶四级

演讲-辩论-哲学思辨旋风之旅


培训目标

以《世界公民思辨书单》中哲学家的核心著作进行主题性阅读, 主题精读37位思想家。 训练命题的提出,结合演讲与辩论。演讲来自命题的共创,命题来自哲学的导读,致力演讲思维密度的提高;辩论采用英国议会制,结合时事与哲学论点,促进辩论逻辑。

(学员基本要求:测出来词汇量5000以上)



精读书目

哲学传统的旋风之旅

《哲学的问题》,勃兰特·罗素

《理想国》,柏拉图

《尼各马可伦理学》,亚里士多德

《忏悔录》,希坡的奥古斯丁

《第一哲学沉思录》,笛卡尔

《利维坦》,托马斯·霍布斯

《形而上学论说》,莱布尼兹

《人类理解论》,约翰·洛克

《人类知识原理》》,贝克莱

《人类理解研究》,大卫·休谟

《纯粹理性批判》,康德

《逻辑学》,黑格尔

《作为意志和表象的世界》,叔本华

《论自由》,约翰·斯图尔特·密尔

《〈数学原理〉及有关系统中的形式不可判定命题》,·哥德尔

《哲学研究》,路德维希·维特根斯坦



疯狂哲学家:局外人与擅闯者

《恐惧与颤栗》,齐克果

《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》,陀思妥耶夫斯基

《善恶的彼岸》,尼采

《审判》,卡夫卡

《局外人》,阿尔贝·加缪

《源泉》,安·兰德

《小说》,博尔赫斯

《知觉之门:天堂与地狱》,阿道司·赫胥黎

《仿生人会梦见电子羊吗?》/《银翼杀手》,菲利普·K·迪克


哲学作为一种沉思

《天堂与地狱的婚姻》,威廉·布莱克

《先知》,卡里·纪伯伦

《小王子》,圣埃克苏佩里

《如果这是一个人》,普里莫·列维

《木民爸爸海上探险记》,托夫·杨森

《海鸥乔纳森》,理查·巴哈

《万里任禅游》,罗伯特·梅纳德·波西格

《小熊维尼讲“道”》,本杰明·霍夫

《精神生活小手册》,拉姆·达斯








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