Unit 9 Learning Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory 课件-2023-2024学年高一英语北师大版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 9 Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory (1) 新 课 导 入 Let’s talk Do you still remember the events in your childhood? Do you still remember what you did last Sunday? Do you still remember the English words that you learnt a few days ago? 课 堂 学 习 Warm-up 1 Which of the following things do you find easy to remember? Can you explain why? names and faces numbers: telephone numbers, passwords, etc. stories facts and arrangements things that happened long ago things that happened recently Pre-reading 2 If you were going to meet a memory expert, what questions would you ask him / her? For example, you can ask: 1. Does age play a role in the human's brain ability to store and recall information? 2. Is there any special food that helps memory? 3. How to remember things easily and quickly? While-reading Read the text quickly. Does the text answer any of your questions in Activity 2? 3 Memory expert Jemima Gryaznov answers four questions in this text, they are: 1. We tend to remember things that have strong connections in our mind. 2. People may not have a photographic memory, but some people do have a better memory. 3. The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning. 4. Our memory is changing as the time passes by. It reaches its full power at the age of 25. 4 Read the text again. Write T or F. 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. ( ) T F F We can remember them clearly. He is good at remembering particular things but does not have a photographic memory. 4. It has been proved that some people have a photographic memory. ( ) 5. The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the first