Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 1: San Francisco

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.

It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Francisco is still a good place - to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city...

• Level: Level 1
  
• Language Level: A1/A2
  
• Word count: 5 664
  
• Read at a comfortable level with word count and CEFR level on every cover
  
• Illustrations, photos, and diagrams support comprehension
  
• Activities build language skills and check understanding
  
• Glossaries teach difficult vocabulary