Unit 7 memory

1、,Module 4 School life,Oxford English,Unit 7,Memory,Period 1,Getting ready Reading (I),Memory Game,1,Look at the pictures quickly，then write down as many animals as you can remember。,1,cat,monkey,bird,panda,giraffe,rabbit,lion,horse,dogs,elephant,tiger,How many animals do you remember?,2,Look at the

2、words for 30 seconds，then write down as many animals as you can remember。,What do you know about ? How much do you know about human memory? Decide whether the following sentences are T (True) or F (False).,T / F,/lu:z/,T / F,T / F,T / F,Who wrote these articles? Who did they write these articles for

3、? What are their articles about? Why did they write these articles?,Read the title and the introduction again. Then answer the questions.,Henry, Paula and Millie.,The school newspaper.,Memory.,To help students improve their memory.,2,Before you read,Look at the introduction, the title and the first

4、sentence of each article on page 99. Then circle the correct answers.,Skim and Listen,Listen to and skim the passage ,then decide whether the following sentences are T (True) or F (False).,1. Henry thinks a big, strange and silly picture can help people remember the thing better.( ) 2. “Smiles” is t

5、he actually the longest word in the world.( ) 3. To Henry, a word is worth one thousand pictures.( ) 4. Millie thinks people wont forget things easily if they understand them.( ) 5. To Paula, the best method for remembering the spelling of a word is to make a short sentence with each letter of the w

6、ord.( ),T,F,F,T,F,3,How do you remember the word “smiles”?,Read the first article and find out how Henry remembers things.,Henry A great way to help you remember something is to imagine a picture of it in your mind. If you make the picture big, strange or silly, you will remember it better. For exam

7、ple, to remember the word “smiles”, we can imagine there is a “mile” between the first letter and the last letter. This makes it the longest word in the world. Remember: a picture is worth a thousand words.,4,Answer some questions : 1.What is a great way to help you remember something? 2.What kind o

8、f picture do you need to make in your mind? 3.What is a good way to remember the word “smiles”?,To imagine a picture of it in your mind.,Make the picture big, strange or silly .,We can imagine there is a “mile” between the first letter and the last letter. .,Read the first article and fill in the bl

9、anks.,picture,strange,silly,There is a “mile” between the first letter and the last letter,Topic sentence: A great way to help you remember something is to imagine a picture of it in your mind.,Paula A good method for remembering the spelling of a word is to make a short sentence with each letter of

10、 the word. For example, if you want to remember how to spell the word “because”, you can use the sentence “Big elephants can always understand small elephants”.,Read the second article and find out how Paula remembers the spelling of a word.,Answer some questions : 1.What method can you use to remem

11、ber the spelling of a word? 2.How can you remember the spelling of the word “because” in a good way?,To make a short sentence with each letter of the word.,You can use the sentence “big elephants can always understand small elephants” .,each letter of the word,Big elephants can always understand sma

12、ll elephants,Topic sentence: A good method for remembering the spelling of a word is to make a short sentence with each letter of the word.,Read the second article and fill in the blanks.,Millie You will forget something very quickly unless you understand it well. For example, you may have trouble r

13、emembering the list of steps in the water cycle. However, it is easier to remember these steps if you understand how the water cycle works.,Read the third article and find out how to remember something more easily.,Answer some questions : 1.What will happen if you dont understand something very well

14、? 2.How can you remember the list of steps in the water cycle more easily?,You will forget something very quickly.,To understand how the water cycle works.,understand,How the water cycle works,Read the third article and fill in the blanks.,Topic sentence: You will forget something very quickly unles

15、s you understand it well.,Read the articles together.,5,Think and say,What do the three articles consist of? a ,Only ideas. b ,Only examples. c ,Both ideas and examples.,Read the three articles and complete the table.,Henry,Paula,Millie,A great way to help you remember something is to of it in your

16、mind.,A good method for remembering the spelling of a word is to _ of the word.,You will forget something very quickly unless you .,imagine a picture,make a short sentence with each letter,understand it well,What kind of picture should we make when we want to remember a word? What is a picture worth

17、? What kind of sentence should we make when we want to remember the spelling of a word? Can we remember something easily if we dont understand it?,Read the three articles and answer the questions.,We should make a big, strange or silly picture.,A picture is worth a thousand words.,A short sentence.,No, we cant.,Retell the three articles using these notes.,minds,silly,method,trouble,steps,C1 The words in italics explain the meanings of some words on page 99. Find these words to complete the sentences. Change their forms if necessary.,Vocabulary,1,Vocabulary,C2 Complete the conversations bel