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Lesson 3
The Secrets of
Your Memory
Unit 9 Learning
Sun Xiaodi
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Memory Game: Game Rules
Memorize as much as you can from each picture.
Each picture is shown for 10 seconds.
Answer a question about the picture later.
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Please pay attention to the number of animals.
How many foxes are there in this picture?
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Please pay attention to the characters’ gestures. 人物的手势
How many people are making the peace sign ✌️ in the picture?
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Which of the following things do you find easy to remember?
names and faces
facts and arrangements 安排
stories
things that happened long ago
things that happened recently
numbers: telephone numbers, passwords.
密码…
A memory expert is coming to our school for a speech.
What questions about memory do you want to ask?
Before the lecture, the expert collected some questions about memory.
Now, let's take a look at these questions together.
Your question is quite representative. My following answer will address it !
What kind of memories can you remember for a long time?
Due to the limited time, Dr. Gryaznova picked out four most typical questions to answer.
Now let's read her answers together. P58
Here are 4 classic memory questions from a memory expert!
Group Task: each group takes one question. Please read the text and find the answer to your group’s question.
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Group 4
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高晓艾
蔡乐
毛浩宇
第五雨欣
陈号然
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Group 2
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Group Task: find the answer to your group’s question.
Group 1
Let’s read Para 1 together, Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
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Memories with strong emotions and those repeated many times last the longest.
This is especially true for childhood memories.
What kind of memories can you remember for a long time?
Group Task: find the answer to your group’s question.
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People with photographic memory have brains like cameras.
Let’s read Para 2, Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
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This is Stephen and his artwork, a reflection of his amazing memory.
Group Task: find the answer to your group’s question.
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Now let’s watch a short video to help us know more about the forgetting curve.
Let’s read Para 3, Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
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Group Task: find the answer to your group’s question.
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The human brain reaches full maturity around age 25
人类大脑在25岁左右完全发育成熟
Let’s read Para 4, Judge whether the following statements are true or false.
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Dr. Gryaznova has answered the following questions.
Do you understand the answers now?
Summary
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?
Emotion shapes childhood memories
No true photographic memory
Memory drops sharply after learning
Memory peaks at 25
After finding the answers to these questions, what insights and suggestions about memory do you have?
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