BR:2-30 SCOTLAND

There is nowhere like Scotland. Scotland is the country north of England, part of Great Britain(England, Scotland and Wales) and of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). It is a country in a country.


Scotland is a book in the Facfiles series. Factfiles, as you may know, is a sub-series of Oxford Bookworms. Scotland is a Stage 1 book.

The book is divided into ten chapters. Each chapter consists of two facing pages, with the exception of Chapter 1 , which is an introductory chapter of only one page. The ten chapters are: This is Scotland, Scotland today, Scotland's past, Edinburgh, Glasgow, The highlands, The islands, Traditional Scotland, Eating and Drinking, Scotland tomorrow. These ten chapters are followed by a map and, as with other Factfiles books, some exercises and a glossary.

The language, as one would expect with a Stage 1 book, is quite simple, the only difficult feature being the large number of proper nouns, unavoidable in a book introducing a city. Sentences tend to be quite short and simple. For example, the 18 sentences on page 2 have the following lengths 9, 16, 15, 15, 22, 6, 14, 10, 21, 17, 12, 21, 14, 13, 12, 17, 11, and 12. This yields a mean of 14.2 words per sentence. The general pattern appears to be a short sentence followed by a longer one. Looking more closely at the longer sentences, we can see that many are composed of two indepent dauses joined by the conjunction "but" or"and". 

I will tell you about section 1: This is Scotland. We can know about Scotland. Scotland is north of England. People who live in scotland love beautiful nature. They are warm and friendly, and funny. (10287/12000)