Berlin Express Level 4 Intermediate

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.

Michael Austen (Author)

9780521174909, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 June 2010

80 pages
19.8 x 12.9 x 0.6 cm, 0.14 kg

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? Paperback-only version. Also available as a pack with 2 Audio CDs with complete text recordings from the book.

1. The past and the future
2. A meeting with a shark
3. An amusing mistake
4. A helping hand
5. A difficult decision
6. A visit to the police station
7. Painful thoughts
8. A little bit of sightseeing
9. The safe house
10. Escape!
11. The eye of the storm. 12. A voice in the ear
13. Last hope!
14. Inside the Hotel Adlon
15. A little bit of Schubert
16. A visit from the priest
17. A surprise visitor
18. A note of thanks
19. A friendly word of advice.

Subject Areas: ELT literature & fiction readers [ELHF]