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The Secrets of Your Memory
Unit 9 Lesson 3
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1. arrangement n. 计划;安排
(1)Many people are dissatisfied with the ____________(arrange).
(2)I will be very grateful if you can arrange the tourist destinations ____me.
(3)The teacher arranged for him_________(spend) one day reading.
(1) make an arrangement/arrangements for... 为……做安排
(2) arrange v. 安排,筹划
(3) arrange sth. for sb. 为某人安排
(4) arrange for sb. to do sth. 安排某人做某事
arrangement
for
to spend
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2. excitement n. 兴奋,激动
(1) Much ___his excitement, he won the game.
(2) George was very ________ at the ___________ news. (excite)
(3) “I won first place in the examination, Mum, ” said Mary in an __________(excite) voice.
(1) 令某人兴奋的是
in/with excitement(= excitedly)兴奋地
(2) excite vt. 使兴奋,使激动
excited adj. 兴奋的,激动的 exciting adj. 令人兴奋的
to
excited
exciting
to one’s excitement
excited
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3. result n. 结果 v. 产生,导致
(1) He had some bad fish. As result, he felt ill this morning.
(2) His laziness resulted his failure; that is to say, his failure resulted his laziness.
(3) She died as a result _____ her injuries.
(1) as a result 作为结果,因此(单独用)
(2) as a result of ...由于...(后+原因)
(3) result in 导致,造成(后+结果)
(4) result from 由……引起,起因于(后+原因)
a
in
from
of
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4. sharp adj. 急剧的,猛烈的,尖的,锋利的
(1) The teacher is sharp _____ the students.
(2) His health improved _______(sharp) this week.
(3) This knife needs ___________(sharp) .
(4) The course will help you _________ (sharp) your writing skills.
(1) be sharp with sb. 对某人严厉;对某人说话尖刻
(2) sharply adv. 急剧地;严厉地
(3) sharpen vt. 使变锋利;使提高,使改进
(sth need doing 某物需要被....)
with
sharply
sharpening
sharpen
Active and Share
Look at the pictures for 5 seconds , then match the same pictures together
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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...
Activate and Share
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Read and Explore
Match the expert’s 4 suggestions with the four questions.
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Suggestion A
Suggestion B
Suggestion C
Suggestion D
Spaced review
At a good age
Focus and be curious
Connect it to our emotions
Reading
1. Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week?
We remember things that have strong
connections in our mind, especially emotional connections.
n. 关系,联系;连接
n. 童年时期
adj. 情感的,情绪的
引导定语从句
Childhood memories are often very emotional.
Reading
This is because when we experience things for the first time, we often have strong feelings of fear or excitement.
1. Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happened last week?
n. 兴奋,激动
第一次
Also, interesting or funny stories from our childhood are often told again and again.
Reading
As a result, we remember them much better, as retelling events helps fix experiences in our memories.
结果
v. 复述
v. 修复
fix sth in one’s memories 牢记某事
What can we learn from all this? When remembering something new, try to connect it to our emotions. It is important to connect it with what we already know. Also, we can try to retell what we have learnt to a few others.
Reading
connect...to/with 把 ...连接起来
Stephen Wiltshire
2. Do some people really have a photographic memory?
adj. 摄影的
A person with a photographic memory could remember every detail of a picture, a book or an event many years later, but no one has proved that there are people who really have photographic memories.
v. 证实,证明
Memory
can remember the first 22,514 digits of pi (π)
Daniel Tammet
photographic memory
Yet, there are some people who do have amazing memories.
然而
表示强调
n. 数字
Stephen Wiltshire
can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it in a helicopter.
飞越
n. 直升机
They are both good at remembering particular things for a limited time.
be good at doing
擅长做某事
adj. 有限的
photographic memory
As most of us do not have amazing memories like them, when memorising detailed learning materials, we simply need to focus on the important ideas and be curious about what we learn.
因为
n. 材料
专注于
对...好奇
photographic memory
Another effective technique to remember things is to group similar ideas or information together so that they can be easily connected to things that are already known.
adj. 有限的
n. 技巧
v. (使)成组,聚集
This is natural for many people.
Don’t worry.
3.Why do I forget the new words that I have learnt yesterday?
adj. 自然的
It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out.
In1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus published a book called Memory and presented a famous forgetting curve.
v. 出版,发行
遗忘曲线
v. 展示
The Forgetting Curve
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02
According to him, the sharpest loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning.
根据
adj.急剧的
This means timely review during this period, with a few revisits to what is learnt, can significantly help us to remember the information.
adj.及时的
adv.显著地
复习
So take it easy. You are at a good age in terms of your memory. Make good use of it!
放轻松
就......而言
充分利用
I'm 16, but I sometimes forget things. Is my memory getting worse?
Definitely not.
adv. 肯定地,当然
bad-worse-worst
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25
40
After this age, however, the brain starts to get smaller.
Our memory reaches its full power at the age of 25.
达到顶峰
At that point, we can remember up to 200 pieces of information in a second.
在那时
达到
立刻,马上
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40
than表示对比,worse为bad的比较级
By the age of 40, we lose 10,000 brain cells every day.
到...年龄
By middle age, our memory is significantly worse than when we were young.
n.细胞
adv.显著地
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spaced review
Therefore, one of the golden rules to increase how much we remember is to review the material periodically, especially during the first day after learning.
黄金法则
adv. 定期地
This “spaced review” soon after learning helps build stronger memories and it is more effective than waiting to review everything before exams.
间隔复习
不久之后
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.
T or F
T
2. When we tell a story many times, we forget important details.
We can remember them clearly.
F
3. Stephen Wiltshire has a photographic memory because he can draw a detailed picture of a city from memory after flying over it.
He is good at remembering particular things but does not have a photographic memory. No one has proved that there are people who do have a photographic memory.
T or F
F
4.It has been proved that some people have a photographic memory.
No one has been proved to have a photographic memory.
F
5. The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the first five days.
T or F
F
6. Our memory starts to get worse in middle age.
F
the very early period after learning
after the age of 25
THANKS.
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