Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers - now with fully revised Factfiles. Factfiles are non-fiction books. They provide up-to-date information supported by high-quality colour photos, and are a good choice for the CLIL classroom. The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. Key Features Stunning NEW covers, to get students interested from the start. UPDATED Factfiles, with NEW text and colour photos, and a new look. UPDATED Activity Worksheets with a story summary & worksheets at Stages 1-4. MORE books available with Audio for students to listen to the complete text.
Illustrations (including new ones in selected stories) to support the book and help introduce new vocabulary. About the Author information, Glossary and Activities section at the back of every book. FREE answer keys, tests, story summaries, and photocopiable activities from www.oup.com/elt/bookwormsDescription 700 Headwords Wordcount 6,480 Available on Audio CDDeep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared.
While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?.