U5Reading1 In class

Memory is essential for life.
A man who had an accident and injured his brain. /'ɪnʤə(r)/
He couldn't remember anything for longer than a few minutes.

The man’s wife went to see him, but he was still angry with his wife. Why?

One basic way of improving your memory is to use the link method .

1. What is the easy way to remember the word “smiles” ?
The easy way is to imagine there is a mile between the first and the last letter.
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1. the importance of memory (a story) 2. the words you can memorize easily by using the link method 3. an amazing story about memory 4. an example ( Memory is connected with feelings.)
When we use the link method, we need to link the thing that we want to (1)__________ with a (2)__________.
The picture that we imagine should be (3)__________, (4)__________ and (5)__________.
2. What is Pansy’s opinion?
Pansy thinks _i_f_the picture is _s_i_ll_y_, s_t_r_a_n_g_e_ and _c_o_l_o_u_r_f_u_l, we will remember it b__e_tt_e_r_.

Read and complete

• memory /'mem(ə)rɪ/ n. • memorize /'meməraɪz/ v.

• 1. Where is the article probably from?
• 2. Who wrote it?

/'f源自文库ːtʃə/ n.
Joyce wanted to have a feature
Welcome to my class
Alice 2018/10/22

Read the words in the list at normal speed. Then close your books and write down, in order, as many words as you can remember. Record your score.

Read and complete
Gou Yanling Place
Specialties

Dave Farrow

opening ceremony
/'serəmənɪ/
Beijing Olympic Games
/ə'lɪmpɪk/

1. As you get old, your memory gets better.
memory • 3. two kinds of memory • 4. memory and feelings • 5. a way of improving
our memory

• Arthur • Joyce • Pansy
• Tony • Millie

What kinds of memory do you know?

sensible and clear.

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• A man in China can remember everyone’s

telephone number.

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• Tony used a book to help him with his

article.

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• Our memory gets better if something bad happens to us.



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2. Joyce’s article is about a man who lost

his wife after an accident.

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3. Making pictures in your mind helps you

to remember things.

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4. The pictures in your mind must be
It was because he couldn’t
r_e_m_e__m_b__e_r herv_i_s_it_s_ a few minutes after she _le_f_t_. He thought his wife _n_e_v_e_rvisited him.

Read Joyce’s article again and put the following sentences in the correct order.
about memory in the school newspaper. She and her editors all agree to write short articles on this topic.

Read and match
• 1. importance of memory • 2. amazing stories about

Short articles on memory
• Arthur:
I read in a ____that we have a_____memory and a ______memory . When people get ____, their ____ memory becomes ____, but we can still remember things that ____ a long time ago.
short-term memory long-term memory

Read and complete

When people get old, …

short-term memory
their short-term memory becomes weaker

long-term memory
they still remember the things that happened a long time ago
My Grandad told me a ___ about memory. He said,' When you get_______, ____things start to_______. First, you start to ______your memory. And I can't_____what the other______ things are!'
An easy way to remember the word ‘smiles’ is to imagine there is a ‘(6)__________’ (7)__________ the
first and the last letters and this makes it the (8)__________ word in the world.

short-term memory

long-term memory

The joke that the grandad told when people get old, they although he is old, he still

shows …

start to lose memory

remembers the joke