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Unit 9 Learning
Lesson 3 The Secrets of Your Memory
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?
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Question 1: Why can I remember events in my childhood but not what happend last week ?
Question 2:Do some people really have a photographic memory ?
Question 3:Why do I forget the new words that I learn yesterday ?
Question 4:I'm 16, but I sometimes forget things. Is my memory getting worse?
Guess answers to these problems.
Student A :
Truth 1
Student B :
Truth 2
Student C :
Truth 3
Student D :
Truth 4
Use a mindmap or graphic organiser to organise the important information.
Report the truth you find to group members and make a complete mindmap.
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Why can I rember events in my childhood but not what happened last week ?
Question1:
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childhood
last week
• connections ;
• childhood memories are
strong
emotional
• stories from our memories are told again and again.
interesting/funny
• events helps fix experiences .
retelling
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Do some people really have a photographic memory?
Question2:
• A person with photographic memory could
• No one has proved that there are people who really .
remember every detail many years
later.
photographic memory
• Yet there are some people who
do .
have amzing memories
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timely review
Why do I forget the new words that I learnt yesterday ?
Question3:
•What did Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
show ?
• The sharpest loss of memory occurs .
during the very early period
How to remember information?
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I'm 16, but I sometimes forget things. Is my memory getting worse ?
Question4:
By middle age
Definitely
not!
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become smaller
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Do you still remember the English words that you learnt a few days ago?
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Which of the following things do you find easy to remember? Can you expalin why?
names and faces
numbers: telephone numbers, passwords, etc.
stories
facts and arrangements
things that happened long ago
things that happened recently
Activity 1
By the end of the lesson, you are supposed to finish the following tasks:
①judge whether the statement about the text is true or false.
②work in groups to find what ways the expert use to make her statements to each questions convincing.
③think how to apply the secrets of memory to English learning in the future.
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?
Activity 2
Read the text quickly. Does the text answer any of your questions in Activity 2?
While-reading
Activity 3
Read the text again. Write T or F. Corrected 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.
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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 very early period after learning
after the age of 25
Activity 4 Task1:
1. Whose is logical ?
2.Whose is practical ?
3. Whose language makes us belive ?
Whose solutions do you like ? Why ?
The English club of our school will hold an activity to help students learn efficiently .
Design a handwritten paper / poster/video script/ ……
to popularize memory knowledge.
Combine what you learn and the mindmap you create.
Think and share
Checklist
I/She/He get the truths and suggestions of the memory problems by reading.
I/She/He can put forward solutions
to the memory problem .
I/She/He can compare my solutions with the expert’s solutions.
I/She/He can use a mindmap to organise information and cooperate with others.
What I hear , I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do , I understand.
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Homework
Surf on the Internet to collect more
information about improving memory.
Thank you for your
attention !
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