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Unit 9 Learning
Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory
Teaching aims(教学目标)
Knowledge aim:
Be able to master new words and use the following words and phrases :periodically; emotional; photographic; timely……
Ability aim:
To find relevant information about the secrets of your memory from the passage and to improve reading ability
Emotional aim:
To understand the meaning of memory, cherish your best years and study hard.
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Lead-in
Lead-in
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Pre-reading
Match : Link words and meanings correctly
emotional
retell
timely
periodically
Done at exactly the right time
To tell a story again in different ways
Relating to feelings
Happening at regular times
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Fast-reading
Fast reading
Listen to the tape and can you find four questions about the secrets of memory . 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?
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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.
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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 is good at remembering particular things but does not have a photographic memory.
No one has been proved to have a photographic memory.
The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning.
Our memory starts to get worse after th