Every day the Earth's air, sea, and land become more and more polluted, and the effect of danger to our health, and even the danger to our lives, is increasing. This book looks at the problems and some of the things we can do to solve them. Read it before it is too late!
Pollution is a book in the Factfiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are about places, and some about environmental pollution problems. Many of the books about places are about countries, but this one is about some problems of pollution. Like many of the books, Pollution has ten chapters: In the beginning, Pollution the air—coal, Polluting the air—oil, Acid rain, Water and chemicals, Recycling, Accidental or deliberate?, Radioactivity,Oil in the sea, Changes in the weather. Each chapter consists of two facing pages, with the exception of Chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter of only one page. The first chapters(In the beginning) consists of only one page each. The every page have a nice photos. 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 book introducing a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students. Picking page 4 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 17, 17, 10, 16, 11, 4, 21, 22, 6, 14, 18. These figures give a mean of 14.8. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 book is the absence of very short sentences of very short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.
The chapter that appealed to me the most was Chapter 3: Polluting the air—oil. The pollution the air is oil by car, according to the book, "All burning produces smoke and gases; but burning petrol also produces a heavy grey metal called lead." (348 / 8,731 words)
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