BR 2-5 FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN

For a small country Britain offers a wide choice of food and drink. People in Britain still enjoy roast beef and other traditional foods, but the way they eat has changed a lot in the last fifty years. This book looks at the traditions, and the changes, and even give some recipes if you want to make British food for youeself.

Oxford Bookworms Factifiles give important and interesting information to the reader, moving enjoyable towards real reading in English. Each book has been carefully graded to help the learner. 

FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN is a book in the Factifiles subseries of Oxford Bookworms. As you may know, Factifiles is a nonfiction subseries. Many of the books are books are about places, and some about social problems such as the environment. Many of the books, FOOD AND DRINK IN BRITAIN has 12 chapters: Introduction; Changes in diet and shopping; Farming and fishing; Home-cooked food; Eating out and eating outside; Fast food; Potatoes: a staple food; A sweet tooth; Going for a drink; A nice cup of tea; How to make Shepherd's Pie; How to make Scones.  

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 introducing a place, but may give an impression of difficulty to some students. Picking page 8 at random, the numbers of words in each sentence are as follows: 20, 16, 10, 10, 21, 38, 9, 9, 20, 27, 15, 22. These figures give a mean of 19.8. One noticeable difference from Stage 1 books is the absence of very short sentences of fewer than 10 words, which may slow down reading speed a little.

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