IRELAND

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 Ireland. 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 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 ten chapters: A strange and interesting country;Around the island;The Irish church and people;The English come to Ireland;Death from hunger,;Fighting to be free; Northern Ireland;Dublin; Stories, music and dancing; and A country for young people. Chapter 1, A strange and interesting country,