Oxford Bookworms Factfiles is a sub-series in the Oxford Bookworms series. It is devoted to nonfiction, and most of the books about countries or famous cities or environmental problems.
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 10 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 needs 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 I read today is California. The book consists of ten chapters: The Golden State, The Gold Rush, San Francisco, Parks, Highway1, Los Angeles, The Desert, San Diego and California.
Chapter8, San Diego is California's oldest, and second largest, city.
Overall, the book was very interesting and useful for me. My knowledge of Ireland was very limited, and the book gave me lots of useful information and made me want to visit California my self . As mentioned adobe, this book and other books in the Factifiles sub-series may be a useful next step for leaners who have read mainly very simple books. (257 words)
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