SCOTLAND

How much do you really know about this country of exiting cities, beautiful islands and wonderful mountains? Everybody knows about Scotch whisky, but this book looks a little further than the Scotland of visitors ― at the real Scotland that lies underneath.

SCOTLAND 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 places, and some about social problems such as the environment. Many of books about places are about countries, but this country is the country north of England, part of Great Britain and of the United Kingdom.


 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 fairly 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 10 at random, the numbers of words n each sentence are as follows: 19, 31, 24, 24. These figures give a mean of  24.5. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little. It is a country in a country.


The chapter that appealed to me the most was Chapter 9: If you visit Scotland, you can stay in a hotel or in a 'B & B' (where you get bed and breakfast, but not dinner). (250 words)