Computers are everywhere - in our homes, our schools, our shops, offices and hospitals. We use the every day, but what do we know about them? Where did they begin, and and when? What is Moore's Law, and how do you pass the Turning Test? What can Deep Blue do, and how did Nolan Bushnell begin with 500 dollars and end can find the answers to all these questions - and much more.Information Technology is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factfiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are about computers, and some about technology.
The language in general is fairly simple, but the impression is that it's noticeably more challenging than stage 1 books. Most of the vocabulary is fairy simple, but there are many proper nouns. This is unavoidable in a book introducing a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students, Picking page 20 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 17, 14, 8, 30, 20, 10, 10. These figures give a mean of 15.6. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of very short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.
The chapter that appealed to me the most was Chapter 11: 'I love you' (and other viruses). There is a story about computer viruses. The viruses are difficult to stop; they can damage millions of computers in a very short time. (254/8173 words)
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