Berlin Express

by Michael Austen

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake they exchange phones and read each other's text messages. Hiro believes that the man's messages show that he is going to Berlin to kill someone. Hiro's first day in the city is a race against time as he tries to warn people of an assassination plot. But is the plot real or does it exist only in Hiro's imagination? Contains a paperback and 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.

80 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2010

Reviews

[Nuriia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ha superado con creces mis bajas expectativas

[Renske Beers · Rating 3 out of 5]

exciting but easy story

[Aki Tanaka · Rating 3 out of 5]

*book: Cambridge, level 4
*time: 10/10, 120 minutes
*summary: Hiro, girlfriend, dog, jealousy, travelling alone, strange man, message
*questions:
1. Hiro is the exchanging student to Britain,and during the summer vacation, he travells around Europe with the InterRail ticket. Do you want to travel anywhere like him?
Yes! I have never been to Europian countries, so I really want to go there such as, UK, France, Germany,Italy, Spain, Holland.... I cannot choose one country!!
2. Hiro loves his dog, Yuki, and he sets her photo screen of his phone. What is your screen picture of your phone?
My photo is the mark of Boston Red Sox. I took it when I went to fenway park and watched baseball.It was very exciting!!

[Hazel Kang · Rating 3 out of 5]

On story aspect, In the beginning of the story, I enjoyed how it started on the train. And it takes suspense pretty exciting, but the ending was boring and expected. However, it was good for me to learn English and enjoy the story at the same time. I want to recommend for English learners on an intermediate level.

[Marcel Richter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cool story and good to learn and improve english.

[Yuki · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first, when I knew the main character in this book was Japanese, I had complicated feelings because I have avoided from Japanese language as I learn English. I hesitated a little, but I thought that I would be going to decide whether continuing or not after I read more a bit. As the result, I couldn't stop reading this book while worrying, exciting, being relived and terrifying with the main character.

[Antonio Estrada · Rating 4 out of 5]

is a good book dedicated to "learning English"... the book had enjoying moments, however, the plot is too predictable... I learned so much vocabulary, you had better reproduce the audio scripts if you wanted to improve your listening skills.

[Luna_zy · Rating 3 out of 5]

at beginning I thought it was a story of mistake but at last it turn out to be a murder story. It does out of my imagination.

[Rabab Chakir · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buenas!!
Alguien me podría mandar un pdf del libro porque estamos en cuarentena y no puedo pedirlo

[Niya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely interesting, involving and mysterious!

[cassielegge · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terribile plot

[Girl Of Disney · Rating 2 out of 5]

2'5 🌟

[Evi Kuijper · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read it for school it was fine

[Amanda Moeller · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit too predictable for my taste but good for B1 learners.

[Martina · Rating 3 out of 5]

El final estuvo mm, pero igual estuvo entretenido saber que estaba pasando y frustrante porque nadie lo pescaba 🫠

[Inés · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oye pues no ha estado mal dentro de lo que cabe. Por lo menos ha sido gracioso y entretenido.

[Laur.cs · Rating 1 out of 5]

Un libro cortito genial para practicar la lectura en inglés.
Igual, el libro tiene demasiadas descripciones para hacer relleno.
Lo leí obligada de la facultad:p

[Celia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ese final ha sido de los peores que he leído nunca y eso de que parezca que estoy leyendo clases de inglés de vocabulario me tiene loca

[Angela25 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Para ser un libro que me he leído para la facultad está bastante bien sinceramente me gusta

[Stephani]

La trama es malísima y muy predecible. Creo que tiene el peor final que he leído en mi vida.
Está bien para estudiantes de inglés con un nivel B1-B2.

[Himawari Ogawa · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Publisher: Michael Austen
Company: Cambridge
Level: 4

2. Time 7/3 18mins

7/6 26mins
7/10 29mins 31mins

7/12 25mins
7/13 38mins

3. Japanese, train, mistake, kill, believe, brave, call

4. Are you brave??
→No I am not. I don't think so.
But I like to try to challenge!

Do you often call to someone to talk??
→ No, not often. And I also don't send
message to someone. If I want to talk with someone, I try to meet them!

5. This book is very interesting!! The more I read, the more I enjoyed it!! I couldn't stop reading!! This is a Japanese man brave story.
And last is also good.lol

[Monica Keller · Rating 3 out of 5]

1: cambridge, level4
2: 90minutes
3: hotel, e-mail, train, kill, police, man, England
4: a: The scene which Hiro finds an e-mail which is said "MEET BRANDENBURG GATE 1PM TOMORROW, COLLECT EQUIPMENT AND HALF FEE."
b: It was surprising that the man was trying to kill Hiro. I could not understand the purpose.
4: It was an exciting story. If I were Hiro, I would be very scared. I always feel that Japan is a very safe country.

[San · Rating 4 out of 5]

un libro muy ameno y que engancha, algo que ayuda para los que vivimos con el inglés a cuestas...nivel intermedio/b1/pet

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Como libro de la eoi, no está nada mal, es ameno y se lee rápido

[albertocalzzada · Rating 2 out of 5]

Leído por obligación. La verdad que algunas partes estaban interesantes, pero no me llegó a gustar del todo.