Oxford Bookworms Factfiles is a sub-series in the Oxford Bookworms series. It is devoted to nonfiction, and most of the books are about countries or famous cities or environmental problems.
The book I read today is Scotland. Generally, the book is quite easy to read. There are few embedded clauses, and the sentences are simple in structure. The average sentence length is about 7 words. There are some much longer sentences, but most of those are lists or have easy-to-understand clauses such as "because" clauses. The vocabulary is quite simple, with few unknown words that learners will need to look up in the dictionary. But the books do have quite a lot of information and the number of words is fairly large. Thus, these books are recommend for learners who are aiming to progress beyond very short and simple books such Usborne First Reading or Oxford Reading tree.
The book consists of ten chapters: This is Scotland, Scotland today, Scotland's past, Edinburgh, Glasgow, The Highlands, The Islands, Traditional Scotland, Eating and drinking, and Scotland tomorrow.
Chapter 2, Scotland today, there are more than five million people in scotland. Scottish people are called Scots, but not Scotch. Scots people are British, because Scotland is part of Britain, but don't call them English! The scots and the English are deferent.
Overall, the book was very interesting for me and it gave me a lot of knowledge and interested about Scotland. I want to know about Scotland more and more. The book has many words, so it is more useful for me to learn English than easier books like Foundation Reader. I try to read the book had many words. (277/7746 words)
Oxford University Press
発売日：1998-11-05
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