B Work in pairs. Make a list of new and difficult words you’ve come across in the text.
LEARNING AND MEMORY 1.2 21 Look at the pictures. What do they have in common? Give examples of things that we use our memory for. Give examples of things that would be impossible without a memory. What do you have a good/bad memory for? For example: faces, birthdays, passwords. What is your earliest memory?
A Check that you understand the words below. Which syllable has the main stress in each word? (Refer to a dictionary if necessary)
memory improve experience remind thorough
affect remember graduate imagine recall
Complete the dictionary extract with the words below.
remember remind memory
___________ is a verb. Use ___________ when you think about or bring thoughts into your mind about a person, place, or event from the past.
I can______ when I went skiing in the Caucasus for the first time.
____________ is a noun. Use ________ to talk about the person, place, or event from the past that you think about.
I have many good _________s of when I was a child.
When you _________someone to do something, you make them __________ it.
Can you ___________me to phone John tomorrow?
B Complete these sentences using words from the Exercise above in the correct form.
1 _________me to phone Alan before I go out.
2 I know from __________that it can get quite cold in Maine this time of year.
3 She can recite the whole poem from _________.
4 Martha __________from high school two years ago.
5 Will the rainy weather _________ the election results?
6 I don’t __________my first day at school.
7 Close your eyes and _________that you are in a forest.
8 She could not _________ his name.
23 Complete the sentences with the noun form of the verbs in brackets.
Underline the words which have the same noun/verb form.
1 There is still room for __________(improve) in your work.
2 Do you have any ___________(experience) working with children?
3 I wrote the time and date of the meeting on my hand as a _________(remind).
4 It doesn’t take much ________(imagine) to guess what she meant.
5 Does your teacher__________(test) your English every week?
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6 She has amazing powers of ________(recall).
24A Do you know the meaning of the following expressions?
Complete the sentences with the correct expression.
if memory serves me right/correctly/well slip somebody’s mind
jog somebody’s memory keep/bear sth in mind
1 If a person asks you to _____________ , they are asking you to remember it because it is important.
2 When you help someone to remember something they have forgotten you______________.
3 If something has _____________, you have forgotten about it.
4 If ________________, you remember correctly or you have not forgotten any details.
B Complete the sentences.
1 If my memory serves me well…
2 Oh dear! It slipped my mind that …
3 To jog your memory I can …
4 You must bear in mind that…
5 I’ve got a brain like a sieve these days! I forgot..
One sentence in each group is wrong. Which one is it?
Then read the notes and check your answer.
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a) She remembered to close the windows before she went out.
b) She forgot to close the windows before she went out.
c) She reminded to close the windows before she went out.
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a) She forgot her mobile phone.
b) She forgot her mobile phone at home.
c) She left her mobile phone at home.
Remind
Remind means ‘make someone else remember something’.
We remind other people. So after remind say ‘who’.
Remind him to call me.
Forget
In British English we use leave when we mention the place
we forgot something.
She forgot her mobile phone. (CORRECT)
She forgot her mobile phone at home. (WRONG)
She left her mobile phone at home. (CORRECT)
A Read the article and answer the questions.
1 What implications do the ideas in the text have for learning a language?
2 Have you ever tried any techniques for improving your memory?
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
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Human memory is complicated and unreliable. Even when we think we remember everything accurately. Let’s take a look at why your memory fails and how you can change that.
Improving your memory is possible. In fact, while there certainly are some techniques proven to help you retain information, improving your memory is just as much about lifestyle as anything else.
- Exercise Regularly
We know that physical activity affects the brain in a number of positive ways and one of those is a boost to memory.
- Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Most of us have heard before that sleep plays an important role in memory, but as time goes on we are learning a lot more about how that works. Sleep and memory is an intensely researched subject, and it’s pretty clear that sleep plays a significant role in memory formation. And the good news is that changing your sleep schedule isn’t that hard to do. If you stick with it, your memory should stay strong.
- Employ Certain Techniques To Help Your Memory
Your memory probably isn’t as bad as you think. It just takes a little training to keep it in shape.
You can’t magically just improve your memory by studying. If you are the type who forgets your keys, you’ll probably always do so. That said, you can employ certain techniques to help you with memory retention,
Train your brain: Find and try different memorization systems.
Improve your memory with chunking techniques: In the simplest terms, it’s like remembering a phone number using the letters on a phone dial pad instead of just the numbers.
Combine information with bizarre images: If you need to remember a certain set of details, it’s often easier for us to do so if we combine that information with something crazy.
Memory is weird, and it works in strange ways. It’s unreliable, but we still have to put our trust in it. Memory is hard to work with, but it is still malleable and you can force memories into your brain. Science is still figuring out exactly what works best, but for now it seems like few things trump a good night’s rest and exercise.
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B Work in pairs. Make a list of new and difficult words you’ve come across in the text.
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