BR2-20: Information Technology

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)

Information Technology (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Paul Davies

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

発売日：2002-11-07

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wedding ceremony

On November 23rd, my brother's wedding ceremony was held. I got up around 9 O'clock, and my mother came to my house around 10 O'clock. We had to wear Nomesode and Furisode, so we went to the New Sky Hotel to wear them. My brother so nerves. I was really looking forward to the day! We are very good brothers. I saw my mother's younger brother and his wife. They live in Osaka, so I have never seen them for a long time. My sister-in-low was very beautiful and she was nerves, too. She wore Uchikake and two dresses. One is a White wedding dress, it is very beautiful. If I get married, I want to wear it. My mother and grandparents were crying when my brother and his wife came up in the wedding hole. (137/7883 words)

BR2-19: Scotland

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)

Factfiles: Scotland: 400 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Steve Flinders

Oxford University Press

発売日：1998-11-05

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weekend

I  held birthday party on Friday. So I went to go downtown after finishing my classes. November 8th was birthday that my older coworker of part-time job. I thanks to his kindness every time, so I wanted him to be surprised and delightful! So I kept secret to separate birthday present and cake. But, of course, the other members knew it. The party was surprise party!! When I reserved a restaurant, I ask a shopper to separate birthday cake. I always do it to have birthday parties. Each of the other members and I took birthday present. I bought a red tie for him.  (106/7469 words)

TH: my favorite color

I am going to tell you about my favorite color. My favorite colors are red, purple and black. I have many black items. For example, clothes, shoes, bags, my computer and more. I think the black clothes can be nice with every item. I often buy black clothes in many shops.  As black is my favorite singer's color too. So I manicured black nail polish with my nail. Black is very cool. The red items can give a good accent. So I like my red muffler. I bought it last winter because I loved it at first sight. But I use it many times so the red muffler is getting older. I have to buy new one. Purple is my favorite big-name brand's color. The brand is ANNA SUI. I like ANNA SUI since I was a high school student. (143/7363 words)

TH: my favorite TV/ movie star

I like Hiro Mizushima very much. Do you know him?  He is an actor and writer. He is one of the famous actor a few years ago but he got married Ayaka, a singer, I sometimes see him on TV now. Recently he practically appears on TV. He wrote 'KAGERO' and he got a prize. I have two photo books of him. He lived in Switzerland when he was a child. So he can speak English very well. You can see on the movie he is speaking English. The movie title is 'BECK.' BECK was shown in 2010. I went to the theater to see it with my friend. My friend, Arisa, likes Takeru Sato and Osamu Mukai. They are in the movie too. The movie about a music band. It was nice movie. And I think Hiro's English is good. If you have a time, please watch it! (150/7220 words)

BR2-18: Blue Fins

It's hot. The Sun is shining. Men, women and children are in the sea. Everybody is happy. The lifeguard watches the sea. He looks at the people swimming. Suddenly he shouts loudly. 'Shark! Quick! Get out of the water!'
 

I read 'Blue Fins.'
Jen and her friends go to the beach because it is the weekend. Her boyfriend, Rick, is happy to buy a new surfboard. They enjoy swimming and surfing. Jen is going to look at the fish underwater. She can look many fish in the sea. After that, she finds the dolphin. The dolphin is rounded by net and the dolphin cannot breaks it so she cannot move. Jen helps the dolphin. She pulls the net from the dolphin and the dolphin can be out of the net. The dolphin swims up and up. The dolphin is very beautiful. Jen tells Rick about it. Next day there are many people on the beach too. But suddenly the lifeguard shouts loudly 'Shark! Quick! Get out of the water!' The people get out of the water in a flurry. The shark is swimming quickly and comes towards Rick because Jen and Rick are swimming a long way from the beach. The shark is fifteen metres away! Jen can see the shark's sharp, white teeth. But suddenly the beautiful blue dolphin comes out! The dolphin hits the shark and the shark swims away. The dolphin shows repayment of a kindness for Jen.  (241/7070 words)

Blue Fins: Starter (Macmillan Readers)

Sarah Axten

Macmillan Education

発売日：2005-04-27

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