对于读国际学校以及未来打算出国留学的学生来说，英语是必须要学习的内容，它*含口语、阅读、词汇量等。为了帮助各位学生能更好的学习英语，下面上海枫叶国际学校英语中心小编就为大家推荐英文电影及书目清单，可供各位学生参考：

一、英语中心推荐电影单 Movies for Teenagers

1.Mean Girls

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. (97 mins.)

Director: Mark Waters

Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey

2.Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him. (142 mins.)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field

3.Finding Nemo

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. (100 mins.)

Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Stars: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe

4.National Treasure

A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries. (131 mins.)

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean

5. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead. (143 mins.)

Director: Gore Verbinski

Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

6.50 First Dates

Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day. (99 mins.)

Director: Peter Segal

Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin

7.Hotel Rwanda

The true story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda. (121 mins.)

Director: Terry George

Stars: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Xolani Mali

8.A Time to Kill

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the K.K.K. (149 mins.)

Director: Joel Schumacher

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson,Kevin Spacey

9.A Time to Kill

When an affluent couple lose all their money following a series of blunders, they turn to a life of crime to make ends meet. (90 mins.)

Director: Dean Parisot

Stars: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins

10.Iron Man

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, an engineer creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil. (126 mins.)

Director: Jon Favreau

Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges

11.Romeo and Juliet

When the now famous "star crossed lovers" of two feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues. (138 mins.)

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Stars: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea

12.Titanic

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. (194 mins.)

Director: James Cameron

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates

13.Back to the Future

A young man is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence. (116 mins.)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover

14.Saving Private Ryan

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (169 mins.)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns

15. Up

Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. (96 mins.)

Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer

16.Happy Gilmore

A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house. (92 mins.)

Director: Dennis Dugan

Stars: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Frances Bay

17.The Notebook

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences. (123 mins.)

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling

18.Ocean's Eleven

Danny Ocean and his eleven accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously. (116 mins.)

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon

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19.A Christmas Story

Ralphie has to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940s. (94 mins.)

Director: Bob Clark

Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz

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20.Twilight

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire. (122 mins.)

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke

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21.Shrek

After his swamp is filled with magical creatures, an ogre agrees to rescue a princess for a villainous lord in order to get his land back. (90 mins.)

Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

Stars: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow

22.Toy Story

A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. (81 mins.)

Director: John Lasseter

Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney

23.The Karate Kid

A handyman/martial arts master agrees to teach a bullied boy karate and shows him that there is more to the martial art than fighting. (126 mins.)

Director: John G. Avildsen

Stars: Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove

24.It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin. (25 mins.)

Director: Bill Melendez

Stars: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Kathy Steinberg

25.Clueless

A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil's popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way. (97 mins.)

Director: Amy Heckerling

Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd

26.Ferris Bueller's Day Off

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that. (103 mins.)

Director: John Hughes

Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones

27.Monsters, Inc.

In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think. (92 mins.)

Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman

Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi

28.Jumanji

29.Stand by Me

30.The giver

31.Spiderman III

二、英语中心推荐读物书单 Books for Teenagers

Harry Potter Series

Harry Potter series is written by J. K. Rowling. The story captivates reader from the very first page. Harry potter is raised in a family which least wants to own him-his aunt and uncle- when he turns 10 he suddenly knew that he is wizard like his parents and has to attend a school of witchcraft and wizardry. He stayed in the school for 6 years during this time he learnt a lot and experienced an all together different life than he was living before. In the seventh year he quit school to take revenge from the dark lord who killed his parents and many other innocent people. In this quest his two dear friends, Ron and Hermione accompany him.

This is an extraordinarily different story. There are seven books in the series and each book is as much unique and different as it is related to the previous one. The story got fame because it has a very unique theme and J. K. Rowling has introduced many new words in the novels.

Harry Potter Series has won many awards and each of the book in the series remain as the bestseller of the year. It has also been included in the Guinness Book of World Record for the year 2009.

Alchemist:

Paulo Coelho is the writer of the famous novel Alchemist. Paulo Coelho is famous for his ingenious writings. It is a story about finding your dreams. He states in his book that the ultimate purpose of human being's creation is to find God and to find God we have to follow our dreams. This book has been written with the plot of medieval times. A boy named Santiago saw a dream and he thinks that he has power to fulfill his dream. In the quest to follow it he started a journey in the desert and in his way he meets many people and learns a lot. The main philosophy of the novel is that when you really want to achieve something the whole universe acts to make your wish come true. The whole novel is full of lines that you want to read again and again. Alchemist is a masterpiece written by Paulo Coelho. He wrote many other books but none else could reach the height as of Alchemist.

To kill a Mockingbird:

To kill a Mockingbird was written and published in 1960. A time when there was great prejudice for the blacks living in the south. There are many themes in the book and is great to read especially fro teenagers. Harper Lee basically told about two themes in the story, i-e; justice and prejudice.

To Kill a Mockingbird is best book for the the pre-teens and teenagers because it revolves around a young girl scout and his brother and the experiences they went through before coming-of-age. The way they saw the world and how their perceptions formed about it.

Sherlock Holmes:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote different detective stories with the main character of Sherlock Holmes. Some of these stories are short and other are long. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a person with unique ideas. In each of his stories he talked about a case and the way he solved it was only his imagination. Nobody could guess how the case will solve but he turned the case entirely into something different.

The Da Vinci Code:

Dan Brown wrote The Da Vinci Code and many other mystery-detective novels. He is one of the most famous contemporary novelists. The Da Vinci Code follows Robert Langdon a symbologist and Sophie Neveu. They both discover a murder that happened in Paris's Louvre Museum. The murder victim is found in Louvre naked and posed like Da Vinci's painting Vitruvian Man. There is also a cryptic message behind his body. Throughout the story both of the characters seek to find the answer to the code found around the body of the victim.

The story also points to the possibility of Jesus Christ marrying Marry Magaldene. The novel gained much speculation from the very start. The novel has also been criticized by the catholic church for its historic inaccuracy.

The Kite Runner:

Khaled Hosseini is a contemporary writer and he wrote The Kite Runner. The novel has been written in the backdrop of the Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan and the end of Monarchy. Amir is a young boy who befriends Hasan, the son of his father's servant. Hasan is a loyal friend and he always helps and supports Amir. On the other hand Amir at times feels jealous of Hasan because Amirs father find Hasan more manly than Amir himself. Although Hasan always stand in front of Amir in any difficulty but Amir did not do so and on one day when Amir wins kite running competition, Hasan runs to catch the cut kite for him. In the way he was cornered by an elder boy Aseef who is a sociopath. Aseef wanted to take revenge from Hasan and Amir for some previous enemity and raped Hasan. Amir listened Aseef voice but did not respond or help his friend and as a result he lives his life with a guilt.

This is a story of love, respect, friendship, guilt, and redemption. The reader will find all colors of life in this novel and it is very close to reality.

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl:

Anne Frank was a young girl who lived in Germany. During World War II the family of Anne Frank went into hiding in the attic of his father's office. During this time Anne Frank wrote a diary about the happenings. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp after they were arrested from their hiding place. After his death his father published the diary. The diary got fame because of the natural and most realistic way in which everything was written.

The Scarlet Letter:

The Scarlet Letter is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in 1850. A woman whose husband is not present gets pregnant. She is thought to be an adulteress by many but she does not disclose the name of the father. She wears a scarlet "A" upon her clothes, branding her. The novel is a classic and has been read many times.

Pride & Prejudice:

Pride & Prejudice is written by Jane Austen. It was published in 1813. Elizabeth Bennett is the main character of the story who is intelligent, sharp, witty and has good sense of humor but she is not good in judging people in the first impression. Mr. Darcy is a rich man who is very distant with strangers and is often thought to have lot of pride but in reality he is a person of noble thoughts.

The novel is an English classic and it has been considered one of the finest novel in the English literature. It has been read and re-read many times. Thus far 20 million copies of Pride & Prejudice have been sold.

Twilight Saga:

Twilight Saga is a series of books very popular among youth. Stephenie Mayer is the writer of Twilight Saga. Twilight series is a fantasy novel based on a vampire. It surrounds around a girl Isabella Swan who got in love with a boy Edward Cullin who is 104 years old and is a vampire. Due to the popularity the three of the books in the series have been made into motion-films. The series has won many awards and is best-seller too.

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