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Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory
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Unit 9 Learning
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Which of the following things do you find easy to remember? Can you explain why?
names and faces
numbers, telephone numbers, passwords
stories
facts and arrangements
things that happened long ago
things that happened recently
Warm-up
If you were going to meet a memory expert, what questions would you ask him/her?
Does age play a role in the human’s brain ability to store
and recall information?
Is there any special food/medicine that helps memory?
Why can’t I remember the English words/texts?
Why do I forget the new words that I learnt yesterday?
Why can’t I remember the homework assigned by teachers?
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( ) 1. We remember certain events in our childhood, because we experienced many of them for the first time, and we felt strongly about them at the time.
( ) 2. When we tell a story many times, we forget important details.
( ) 3. Stephen Wiltshire has a photographic memory because he can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it.
( ) 4. It has been proved that some people have a photographic memory.
( ) 5. The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the first five days.
( ) 6.Our memory starts to get worse in middle age.
P59—4 True or False? Correct the false statements.
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( ) 1. We remember certain events in our childhood, because we experienced many of them for the first time, and we felt strongly about them at the time.
( ) 2. When we tell a story many times, we forget important details.
( ) 3. Stephen Wiltshire has a photographic memory because he can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it.
( ) 4. It has been proved that some people have a photographic memory.
( ) 5. The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the first five days.
( ) 6.Our memory starts to get worse in middle age.
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we can remember them clearly
He’s good at remembering particular things but doesn’t have a ph