Oxford Bookworms Factifiles 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 New york. 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 23 words. There are some much longer sentences, but most of those are lists or have easy-to-understand such as "because" clause. The vocabulary is quiet 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 recommended 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 nine chapters: The big Apple; In the beginning; Visiting the city; Some places to go; Looking up!; Shopping and eating; Entertainment; We love a parade! and New York and New Yorkers.
Chapter 2, In the beginning, describes the geography of New York.
Overall, the book was very interesting and useful for me. My knowledge of New York was very limited, and the book gave me a lots of useful information and made me want to visit New York myself. As mentioned above, this book and other books in the Factfiles sub-series may be a useful next step for learners who have read mainly very simple books.
257 words 2713/15000
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