Group work:Lets have a competition. Look at the word list for a minute, then tell the others how many of them you can remember? Write them down.Group work:Group work: Look at the pictures for a minute, Look at the pictures for a minute, then tell the others how many of then tell the others how many of them you can remember? What is them you can remember? What is there in each picture? there in each picture? Do you know the meaning of the following words ?1. a building for keeping a car in 2. darkness caused by something 3 someone who carries goods from place to place and tries to sell them 4. the joint between your foot and your leg 5. a line of people 6. old or becoming old 7. to cause physical harm to sb. 8. a relationship between two things 9. a small creature with 8 legs which makes net worksgarage shadowhawker ankle queue elderly injure linkspider10. someone who works or travels in a spaceship 11. a violent accident involving one or more vehicles 12. a reason that you give to explain why you are doing something 13. to say sorry that youve done something wrong 14. an organization that collects money or goods to help the poor 15. to experience physical or mental painastronautcrashexcuseapologizecharitysuffer16. a sudden event such as a flood a stormor a accident 17. to say numbers in their correct order18. extremely surprised19. someone who is very rich and has at least a million pounds or dollarsdisastercountamazedmillionaire20. ability to remember things 21. put things into your memory; learn exactly 22 reasonable; practical , and able to judge things 23. at a later time 24. simplest; necessary and important 25. to make things better 26. a way of doing something 27. impressive; sudden and often surprising; excitingmemorymemorizesensible afterwards basic improve methoddramatic1 As you get older, your memory gets better. 2 In Joyces article, a man lost his wife after an accident. 3 Making picture in your mind helps you remember things. 4 The picture in your mind must be sensible and clever. 5 A man in China can remember everyones telephone number. 6 Tony use3d a book to help himself with his article. 7 Our memory gets better if something bad happens to us.F F T F FT FCan you tell me what memories do we have?Yeah. We have: 1.short-term memory. 2. Long-term memoryIf we lose our short-term memory what will happen?We forget things happening recently.3. What happened to a man ?4. What was his memory like after the accident?He had an accident and injured his brain.He could not remember anything for longer than a few minutes.5. What is one of the basic ways to improveyour memory?6. What is a link method?To use the link method.If you want to memorize something, you can make a picture in your mind.7. Give examples to show some amazing memories ?Gong Yangling from Herbin could memorize more than 15,000 telephone numbers. An Englishman remembered the correct order of 1,820 playing cards after seeing them just one time.8. What is our memory connected with?9. Why can 98% of old people in the USAremember where there when they heard about the death of President John F. Kennedy? It is connected with our feelings.Because it was dramatic. 1 All green plants have the same _needs: food, water and sunlight. 2 Ann:What is it like to be an astronaut?Don:I dont know, but I _ its exciting. 3 The British and French governments havebuilt a long tunnel to _ France happened)happening ( n. ) sb. happen to do sth 1. I happened to meet her on my way home.2. it happens that3. It happened that the person he met in the office was the woman he had met before. 4. 5. 2. improve v. (improved; improved) improvement n.improved adj. Lets hope that the weather improves before Saturday. There will be a course for students wishing to improve their English. This is a new improved formula! There has certainly been an improvement in the students behaviour. 3. amaze v. amazed; amazing ( adj.) sth is amazingsb. is amazed at.We are amazed at his rapid progress.Yao Ming is an amazing player to watch.amazementTo my amazement, he came up and shook hands with me. Jane gasped in amazement.4. lose v. (lost, lost, losing) taken away from one by accident,丧失,失去lose all money on business lose heart / ones memory /job/ weight5. connect v. connected; connectedconnect sth to / with Connect the speakers to the record player.connected ; connecting adj.be connected with Arent they connected with his fathers business in some way? These two countries were once connected. Wed like two rooms with connecting doors. 1. a building for keeping a car in 2. darkness caused by something 3 someone who carries goods from place to place and tries to sell them 4. the joint between your foot and your leg 5. a line of people 6. old or becoming old 7. to cause physical harm to sb. 8. a relationship between two things 9. a small creature