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Do you still remember the events in your childhood
make Chirstmas pudding
decorate the house
hang a stocking
put up a Christmas tree
give/open gifts
sing christmas songs
What do people in the west do to celebrate Christmas
Do you still remember what you did last Sunday
Q：How many characters are doing this pose （姿势） ？
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
Do you still remember the English words that you learnt a few days ago
extinction
commitment
foundation
institute
involve
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
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.
T
F
F
F
F
F
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：
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2020
2022
Read and expolre
Why can I rember events in my childhood but not what happened last week
Question1：
2006
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
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
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



Choose the main idea according to the title and questions mentioned.
The Secrets of Your Memory
A. The answers of the common questions about memory.
B. The reason why our memory has secrets.
C. The studies exploring the secrets of memory.
D. The approaches to promoting our memory.
Memory expert Jemima Gryaznov answers some of the most common questions about memory.
Check: match the phenomena（现象） or answers.
Mummy, the animals are so cute! I love the zoo! I think we can go here again!
Everyone thinks that I have a photographic memory, but I just have an amazing memory.
Q1
Q4
Q3
Q2
Group work: Give possible solutions and show reasons.
Q1
Q3
to retell the events
to revisit/ review
Q2
Q4
to practise and promote our memory
to accept it/ to take it easy
to connect things with your emotion
We remember things that have strong emotional connections.
Retelling events helps fix experiences in our momeries.
It’s a common process.
No one has photographic memories.
Timely review can significantly help us to remember the information.
What truths about memory does Jemima Gryaznov discuss in the text
Truth 1 Truth 2 Truth 3 Truth 4
We remember things that have strong connections in our mind, especially emotional connections.
Nobody has a photographic memory.
The sharpest loss of memory occurs during the very early period after learning.
Our memory reaches its full power at the age of 25.
Activity 7
Activity 7
What advice does she give to improve one’s memory
Advice 1 Advice 2 Advice 3 Advice 4
We need to make strong connections with things we want to remember in our mind, especially emotional connections.
We need to focus on the important ideas and be curious about what we learn when memorising complex learning materials.
We need to review the information at regular intervals, especially in the first day after learning it.
We need to train our memory to remember more when we’re older.
Group work: Task2:
1. How has the expert tried to make her statements to each questions convincing What methods has she used and what signal words can you find
To make her statements convincing the expert used:
examples: For example...
figures: a famous forgetting curve
quote: According to...
numbers: 25,200,40
Activity 8
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.

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