How much do you really know about this country of exciting cities, beautiful islands wonderful mountains? Everybody know looks a little further than the Scotland of visitors—at the real Scotland that lies underneath.
Oxford Bookworms Factfiles is a sub-siries in the Oxford Bookworms series. 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 the books about places are about countries, but this one is about England's populous area. Like many of the books, Scotland has ten chapters: This is Scotland, Scotland today, Scotland's past, Edinburgh, Glasgow, The Highlands, The Islands, Traditional Scotland, Eating... ... and drinking and Scotland tomorrow. Some consist of two pages. The first and last chapters (This is Scotland and Scotland tomorrow) consist of only one page each. The last chapter has a nice large map of Scotland, and photos are included on every page. The book ends with two page of exercises and a glossary.
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 12 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 5, 15, 19, 42, 17, 4, 8, 14, 9, 4, 4. These figures give mean of 12.8. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of very short sentence of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.
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