Unit 9 Learning Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语北师大版(2019)必修第三册

Unit 9 Learning Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory 1 Pre-reading Ⅰ 2 Pre-reading: Memory games Let’s play. How good is your memory? 3 Now, recall the numbers 37654 0401473 486854332 85129619450 918546942937 Look at the numbers for 5 seconds and then recall them! Pre-reading: Memory games 4 Pre-reading: Activate and share Which of the following things do you find easy to remember? Why? names and faces facts and arrangements stories things that happened long ago things that happened recently numbers: telephone numbers, passwords... Do you have difficulty with memory? If you were going to meet a memory expert, what questions would you ask him / her? Work in pairs, note down 1 or 2 questions you’d like to ask. Pre-reading: Group work Example: Is there any special food that helps memory? Ⅱ Fast Reading 7 Fast reading Read the text quickly. What questions are answered in the text? Does the text answer any of your questions? Share with us! 1. Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week? 2. Do some people really have a photographic memory? 3. Why do I forget the new words that I learnt yesterday? 4. I’m 16, but I sometimes forget things. Is my memory getting worse? 8 Fast reading: True or False and correct the false statements. 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. F F F F F T We can remember them clearly. He is good at remembering particular things but does not have a photograph