BR2-21: FLIGHT

Three thousand years ago, Icarus tried - and died. One thousand years ago, Oliver of Malmesbury tried - and nearly died. Five hundred years ago Leonardo da Vinci tried - but his plane was too heavy. And finally, in the Wright brothers tried - and flew for fifty-nine seconds. Today, we think nothing of flying thousands of kilometres, but the fight for flight has been long and dangerous.

 Flight is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you know, Factfiles is a nonfiction sub series. The book has 2900 words. There are too many words, so it is difficult for me to read it. The average sentence length is about 17 words. There are some much longer sentence, but these are very simple grammar. The book has 10 chapters. I think chapter 5 has many words of all.

The books has a lot of information. FLIGHT is written about many flying things. For example, there are  birds, a man who made wings for him arms, balloons, parachutes, gliders, aeroplanes, helicopter, airships, flying boats, aeroplane at war and passenger aeroplanes.  Japan has a competition which is the JAPAN INTERNATIONL BIRDMAN RALLY. It sometimes hits screen. Some of people want to fly and they make wings for their arms. They compete on the flying distance.
The first aeroplane was made by the Wright brothers. Now thousands of people are in the air every day of the week. They are making hundreds of journeys and flying faster than any bird.

Dean, Micheal (1997). FLIGHT, Oxford bookworms (256/9184 words)