London-two thousand years of history. From the Romans and King Henry the Eighth to the city of today and tomorrow - and from St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace to Petticoat Lane and Ronnie Scott's Jazz club.
London is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. as you may know, Factfoles os a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books 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 most poplar city. Like many of the books, London has nine chapters: This is London!, in the beginning, Visiting the city, Some places to go, Westminster, Shops and eating, Going out, Museums and galleries, Places and parades. Some consist of two pages, as with the Stage 1 books, other four pages. The first page (This is London!) consist of only one page. The last chapter has a nice large map of London, and photos are included on every page. The book ends with two pages 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 introduction a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students. Picking page 6 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 9, 17, 14, 12, 16, 16, 10, 10, 19, 10, 15, 9. These figures give a mean of 21. One noticeable difference from stage 1 is the absence of very short sentence of fewer 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.
The chapter that appealed to me the most was Chapter 4: Some places to go. The Queen's Gallery is also at the palace, and you can visit it at most times of the years. I want to go to the Queen Gallery! (329/5942 words)
Oxford University Press
発売日：1996-07-25
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