Pollution (Oxford Bookworms Factfiles)

When you pollute something you make it dirty or dangerous. It is dangerous to drink polluted water or breathe polluted air; and if you pollute the ground, nothing will grow in it. Pollution can start in a small way - like using a river for waste. But then, pollution grows and grows, until everybody is in danger...

Pollution is a book in the Factfiles series. Factfiles, as you may know, is a sub-series of Oxford Bookworms. Pollution is a Stage 2 book.

The book is divided into ten chapters. Each chapter consists of two pages, with the exception of Chapter 1, which is an introductory chapter of only one page. The ten chapters are: In the beginning; Polluting the air - coal; Polluting the air - oil; Acid rain; Water and chemicals; Recycling; Accidental or deliberate?; Radioactivity; Oil in the sea; and Change in the weather. These ten chapters are followed by a map and , as with other Factfiles books, some exercises and a glossary.

The language, as one woild expect with a Stage 2 book, is quite simple, the only difficult feature being the large number of proper nouns, unavoidable in a book introducing a city. Sentences temd to be quite short and simple. For example, the 11 sentences on page 4 have the following lengths (numbers of words): 17, 17, 10,16, 11, 4, 21, 22, 6, 14, and 18. This yields a mean of 14.45 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 independent clauses joined by the conjunctions "but" or "and". If we count these as separate sentences, we get a new mean sentence length of 9.43 words. To cut a long story short, it is unlikely That any students would be overwhelmed with the difficulty of this book.

The most interesting chapters for me were those with some connection with water, particularly Chapter 4 (Acid rain), Chapter 5 (Water and chemicals), Chapter 9 (Oil in the sea). 

Polluted water kills more than 25 million people every year. One and a quarter billion people do not have clean, safe, water for drinking or washing.

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Pollution (Oxford Bookworms Factfiles)

Rosemary Border

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

発売日：1999-11-16

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Nabe

 November 23, I made a Kimuchi Nabe and ate it with my friends. It was so fun and so delicious. Now I live alone, so I enjoyed eating dinner with my friends. We drunk liquors but I easily get drunk. So I didn't drink many liquors. I want to do with my friends again, and I want to make a lot of memories. Next time, I want to make Takoyaki or Okonomiyaki. 

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My favorite Nabe

  My favorite kinds of Nabe are Mostu Nabe and Kmuchi Nabe. I like Nabe because we can make it easy and we can eat meat and vegetables. I like to eat Nabe in winter. I think it makes our body very hot. I like Motsu Nabe because I like Motsu very much. It is very very delicious. My father knows very nice shop. There is in Fukuoka, so I don't eat it this year yet.  My family goes to there every year in winter. I think when I eat Motsu Nabe, I feel winter comes. So, I want to eat it till this year. I can eat a lot of cabbages that are in Motsu Nabe. I also like Kimuchi Nabe. I like spicy things. I like little spicy Kimuchi Nabe. This year I ate Kimuchi Nabe twice. It was delicious and fun. I want to eat Kimuchi Nabe and Motsu Nabe many times.

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My favorite drinks

  My favorite drinks are green tea, coffee and orange juice. When I was a child, I couldn't drink green tea. Because it taste very bitter. But recently I drink green tea when I eat foods. I like green tea better than normal tea. I think bad point of green tea is we want to go lavatory soon. I also like coffee, and I can drink black coffee. I like to drink black coffee with chocolate in the morning. In summer, I always drink cold coffee with breads. It is very nice. I like cafe au lait and I sometimes drink it. But I like coffee better than cafe au lait. I like orange juice, too. When I was a child, I like a carbonated juice. But I started to play basketball, I stopped drink it. Because I heard that a carbonated juice makes our bone fragile. So I stopped to drink a carbonated juice.

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BR 2-26 : A Trip to the Library

"We can search for the title on the computer," said Dan.

  I think Library is very nice place, because we can calm. I don't like read books, but I like to go to the library. There are library in my hometown, I went there many times. When I was high school student, I often went to library to study. I couldn't study in my home, so I went to library to study. I could concentrate in library. I also like school library. When I had a test term, I went to library. I could study, but I slept. Because I felt warm in library. I like to drink black coffee in there. I felt good. 

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A Trip To The Library (Eyewitness Readers)

Deborah Lock

Demco Media

発売日：2004-10

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BR 2-25 : FOOTBALL

They said soccer would be more interesting with more goals. They said the goal should be bigger. They said the offside rule was too difficult. They said there should be more time for TV advertising during the game.

  I love sports, of course I love soccer. My most favorite sport is basketball. My second favorite sport is soccer. I can't soccer but I like to watch soccer game. I think basketball and soccer is the same. We use hands when we play basketball, we use foots when we play soccer. We mustn't use foots when we play basketball, and we mustn't use hands when we play soccer. Basketball and soccer has offense and defense. When soccer games broadcast on TV, I certainly watch them. I enjoyed watching soccer game when Olympic games. That games were very exciting game. I want to watch soccer games directly. 

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FOOTBALL (Oxford Bookworms Factfiles. Stage 2)

Steve Flinders

Oxford University Press

発売日：1996-01-25

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BR 2-24 : Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery

Eric skated quickly around them. He skated into the rail. Crash! Eric fell onto the ice. Cam, Mr. Shelton, and a man in a green jacket rushed to Eric. "Are you hurt?" Mr. Shelton asked.

  When I was a child, I often went to skate with my family. My mother and my young sister skated very well, but my old sister and I couldn't skate well. So, she and I always skated with hand in hand and fell onto the ice together. We were laughing. My mother taught us how to skate, but we couldn't. When I was high school student, I went to Nagano on a school excursion trip. Then I played a ski. It was so interesting, and I enjoyed it. I could play it well. I played night ski, I also enjoyed playing it. I fell onto ice many times. I want to play ski and skate again. 

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Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery

David A. Adler

Turtleback Books

発売日：2000-09

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BR 2-23 : IRELAND

Ireland is a book in the Oxford Bookworms series. It's in the Factfiles sub-series, the nonfiction counterpart of the Oxford Bookworms Library. It's a Stage 2 book. The book is divided into 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, A country for young people. 

The book as a whole has 19 pages, and each chapter comprises about 2 pages. The sentences are quite easy, with about 10-20 words a sentence. Most sentences are simple in structure, with few or no embedded clauses. The vocabulary is also quite simple, with few words that typical learners will need to look up in a dictionary.

The chapters that appealed to me the most are Chapter 9: Stories, music and dancing and Chapter 10: A country for young people. The bulk of this review will be devoted to these two chapters.

Chapter 9: 

People of Ireland love music, and they sing a song in pubs. There are famous musicians in Ireland: The Boomtown Rats. 

Chapter 10: 

Now people under the age of twenty-five constitute fifty percent of Ireland population. Fifty years ago, many young people went to America or England to find work, but now they can find it in Ireland. 

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Factfiles: Ireland: 700 Headwords (Oxford Bookworms ELT)

Tim Vicary

Oxford University Press

発売日：1998-04-09

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basketball

  I went to Kami Amakusa from the day before yesterday to yesterday to play the game. I teach basketball for elementary school student. My team won the first game, so we could remain the next day. And yesterday we couldn't win the game. The game was retirement game for six graders. But they played as hard as they could. I want them to play basketball when they will be junior high school students.

(76/6675)

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BR 2-22 : Ben and the Ghost

　In the middle of the night Ben woke up. He felt dozy. He could not remember where he was. The room felt strange.

  Do you believe a ghost? I don't believe a ghost, but I believe UFO. Because I watched it when I was 10 years old with my basketball teammate. I watched it firstly I thought it was plane. But my teammate and I thought that how to move was not a plane. And it color was orange. We thought it was UFO! We looked each face, and I wanted to shout. But I couldn't, because we listened to my basketball coach's conversation. I told my friends this story, everyone didn't believe this. I and she believe that it was UFO. We watched UFO. I believe UFO exist the earth.

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*LILA:SS:S7: BEN AND THE GHOST (Literary Land)

M Coles

Longman

発売日：2001-05-04

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BR 2-21 : CARS

  Today, there are more cars on the roads than ever. They use up lots of fuel and puff horrible fumes into the air.

   I have a car license, but I don't have a car. Now I live alone, so I don't have to have a car. I like to drive a car, but I am not good at driving. When I came back to my town, I drove my mother's car with my mother. I drive carefully, but my mother doesn't drive carefully. I drive very slowly because driving fast is scary. I want to buy my car, but  I don't have enough money. My old sister bought used car by herself. She saved a lot of money to buy it. So I save enough money to buy my car. If I could buy my car, I would go travel to many places.

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The Story of Cars (Usborne English Learners' Editions)

Jane Bingham

Usborne Publishing Ltd

発売日：2012-12-01

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BR 2-20 : The Olympic Games

  basketball players can also be professional now. The US 'Dream Team' of top professional basketball players was let into the Games in 1992, and as won every gold medal since.

   I could know about Olympic. I think Olympic Games are very important for sports man, because it is important for them to have a competitive spirit. To have a competitive spirit give sports man highly motivate. I think Olympic Games give people dreams. This year's Olympic Games, Japan woman's national football team gives Japanese dreams and hope. A lot of Japanese people are given many impression. When I was a elementary school student, my dream was to take part in the Olympic Games. I think 'Dream Team' is very interesting. I want to watch it, but this year it wasn't TV broadcasting. I want to watch it next year.

(144/6320)

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles, Stage 3: 1,000 Headwords the Olympic Games

Steve Flinders

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

発売日：2001-05-31

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Podcast 7 : The Pizza That We Made

 The Pizza That We Made is the Puffin Easy-To-Read. This book tell you about clean is important.

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The Pizza That We Made script

  This time  I read The Pizza That We Made. This is a book in the Puffin Easy-To-Read series. This story is about three brothers who made pizza from dough. My favorite part is where they cleaned the kitchen utensils when they baked the pizza. Finally they ate the pizza with great relish.

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sleeping

  I slept at p.m. 12 o'clock the day before yesterday. I got up at a.m. 11 o'clock yesterday. I was sleeping for 11 hours. I had a good night's rest, but I was tired. Because I slept a lot of hours. Usual,  I am sleeping for 7 hours, and I keep early hours. I sleep at p.m. 11 o'clock and get up at a.m. 6 o'clock. Recently, I joined basketball club, so I was very tired. I had a good rest this weekend.

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My favorite desserts

   My favorite desserts are chocolate cake, cheese cake and cream puff. My mother makes chocolate cake every our birthday. It is very delicious, but I don't eat her chocolate cake for two years. I made chocolate cake, and it was nice. But my mother's cake is the most delicious cake. I was looking forward to my father, old sister, young sister and my birthday. My father likes cheese cake better than chocolate cake, so my mother sometimes made cheese cake on my father's birthday. My mother's cheese cake also very good. I want everyone to eat my mother's cakes. I like cream puff, because my grandfather ate also every day. He loves cream puffs. When I went to his house, he gave me cream puffs, and I ate them with him. I love my grandfather, so I also love cream puff.

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BR 2-19 : THE USA

  But if you visit the USA you can also eat all kinds of tasty food from different countries: Chinese, Mexican, Italian ... the immigrants who came to the USA brought their own favourite foods with them. And more and more people are interested in healthy eating, so they choose 'low-fat' foods, or they refuse to eat meat.

  When I read this book, I wanted to go the USA. When I was 17 years old, I went to Washington D.C. I enjoyed staying there. But I stayed there for three weeks. It was very short stay, so I didn't experience a lot of things. If I went to the USA, I would to go watching NBA and MLB. I want to watch NBA live. When I went to the USA, I thought that I couldn't speak English at all. I could listen people said, but I couldn't tell my feelings. I was very vexing. I want to speak English well. 

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The USA (Oxford Bookworms: Factfiles)

Alison Baxter

Oxford Univ Pr (Sd)

発売日：1999-09-23

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BR 2-18 : Away Match

   'That's better,' Danny said. 'Now you can do it I told Manolo you'd be my star player. So don't let me down. Do it for me, Maria. And do it for the team.'

  I think this book tell me that basketball is sport that play with teammate. We can't play it alone, we have to cooperate with everyone. I has played basketball since I was 8 years old. There are two memorial games. One is the game that when I was elementary school. That game was losing until 3Q. We played our best and we didn't give up. And we caught up opponent team. We finished game and my team and opponent team were the same score, so we went into extra innings. I was very nervous and my teammates were also nervous. We didn't give up this game until finish. And we believed that we won. That game, we could won. I thought that don't give up and believe our teammate was important to play sports.

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Away Match (New Wave Readers)

Susan Axbey

Macmillan Education

発売日：1991-03-21

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My favorite person

  My favorite person is Ohga Yuko, she is a basketball player and she is 30 years old. I think she is the most cool basketball player in Japan. I had met her once. She belongs to JX Sunflowers now. She has played basketball since she was eight years old. She and I is the same position, point guard. I respect her, because her plays are likes men's play. I try to copy her play, but I can't it. She played difficult techniques easily. She was elected the Japan women's national basketball team. When she was 21 years old, she took part in the Athens Olympic Game. She participated in the London Olympic Game this year, I watched the games. But Japan didn't go to the final game. I want her to enter the next Olympic Game. I practice harder and harder and I want to associate with her play. I support her from now on.

(159/5541)

My favorite colors

 My favorite colors are white and black. Because I image that white is refreshing and clean and black is strong, cool and brace a body. When I buy clothes, I almost chose white or black ones. And clothes that I have are almost white or black. White and black are easy to match another colors. I don't like flashy colors at all. I think I don't become flashy colors.  Girls like pink, but I don't like pink. I image pink is very girly color and I don't become pink. When I was a child, I also didn't like pink. Then I like red. I think red is also nice color, because red is passion. I remembered that I bought red clothe when I was elementary school student. I am to unify my room with brown color. Brown is a relaxing color for me. So I buy brown furniture.

(150/5363)

Podcast 6 : The Leopard and the Lighthouse

  The Leopard and the Lighthouse is the Penguin Readers. This book tell you that life is important.

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 One day, the leopard appeared Sindi. People who live in Sindi thought to kill him. But a man whose name was Saied didn't think to kill him. He helped the leopard and took the leopard to a zoo. Saied told his children this story. They visited a zoo and saw the leopard.

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BR 2-17 : The Leopard and the Lighthouse

  "Is it leopard dead?" asks Tanza. "No," says Saied. "My dart doesn't kill animals. He is only sleeping." "Let's kill him now," shout the people. "No," says Saied. "The leopard is beautiful. Please give him to me." "All right," says Mphammed. "The leopard is yours, Saied." 

   This book tells us importance of life. Possibly the leopard ate children, but Saied didn't kill and he took the leopard to zoo. I thought animals have life that is identical to human's life. I think a lot of  wild animals are killed by people if they are found. Do you think this is good thing? Certainly they give a damage to rice fields and farms, but I think we don't have to kill them. We give an anesthetic to animals and they let sleep. And we take them zoo or the heart of a mountain. It is very important thing that we protect humans' and animals' life.

(160/5160)

LEOPARD & THE LIGHTHOUSE PLPR ES (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers))

Anne Collins

Penguin

発売日：2008-03-04

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ysterday

  I made a cheese cake, because my friend's birthday was October 28th. I was irresolute that I made a cheese cake or chocolate cake. I decided to make a cheese cake, because it is very easy to make. It took less than an hour including bake. I put materials into a blender and mixed it. I did only it. It looks was very delicious. I want to make a chocolate cake next.

(75/5000)