Death of an Englishman

by Diane Mowat (Adaptor), Magdalen Nabb, Jennifer Bassett (Series Editor)

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.

Genres: Teaching

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Kevin R · Rating 4 out of 5]

It started out as a book that was read for my English class back in high school. The story tells about the mystery of a murder case involving an Englishmen, in which the story follows by providing informations as the story goes on. All in all, it was an interesting read in addition to a way of learning how to do a proper storytelling.

[Yuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was the first STAGE 4 book I have ever read from Oxford Bookworms. There were a lot of difficult words, but they gradually reduced. The way in written the main and minor characters was very interesting and deep representation, that made felt me as if I was reading in my native language.

[K · Rating 2 out of 5]

イタリアが舞台の推理小説。
ディテールをすっとばすと、推理小説って身も蓋もないよなーと簡略版を読んでよーっくわかるというか^^;。
イタリア語の名前を判別するのがいささか難儀だったなーとゆーぐらい。
本当は泣ける話なんだろうとは思うのですが。

[Amaia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quiet entertaining. If you have a good level of English it"s easy to read

[Luli · Rating 2 out of 5]

podría haber tenido un re plot twist pero le tuvieron miedo al éxito

[Kyosuke Torihara · Rating 5 out of 5]

1. OXFORD & stage4
2. 100min.
3. Mystery, dead-man, habit, strange, police, search, why
4.a) we needn't worry about the customs officer and the thieves.
b) This expression is not familiar for us, Japanese who are educated seriously. Usually, we use " don't need" instead of "needn't". When I saw this sentence in this book, I was surprised and could learn new expression.
5. In this book, there is a situation which a police ask the suspect about the happening. One suspect was child. Actually, the police didn't trust the child. I had a same experience when I was child. At school, my teacher didn't trust us when we were in trouble. They tend to doubt us. Both of us a human. We sometimes make a mistake. But even the adults, we tend to protect ourselves with a lie when we are in trouble. So I would say I cannot believe almost of all the people. We have to find and make a good relationships with our reliable persons.

[Nhi Nguyễn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kinda good story. However, there were some points during the course of the story that I didn't quite understand clearly. It's like, I'm reading to this detail and suddenly, the author jumped to another totally different one. Somehow I felt like the course of the story was interrupted many times due to that incomprehensibility. And the part of solving the crime weren't really interesting and fascinating like I had expected. But overall, it was a decent detective story, with an unlikely culprit revealed at the end, considering this is a short retold of the original, which does not allow the story to be fully expressed.

[pier63 · Rating 2 out of 5]

14,815語
英国人の死(真夜中の訪問客)

[Namiko]

I've just found some reviews below about this book and it seems like one of the famous series. I thought this story was one of the stories they had made up for beginners. It was hard to learn and to read aloud their Italian names.

[POLIPOLIK · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jak na knigę dla językowych ciaptaków, to niezgorzej.

[Sarawut Somabut]

good

[Clarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Sajjad Al Saeed · Rating 3 out of 5]

it was boring in the beginning, but the story was okay.