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If you do not want to lose your memory as you get older you need to keep your brain fit, just like your body: “use it or lose it” is the experts’ advice. Logic puzzles, crosswords and mental arithmetic are all good “mental aerobics”.

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Physical exercise is also important for your memory, because it increases your heart rate and sends more oxygen to your brain, and that makes your memory work better. Exercise also reduces stress, which is very bad for your memory.

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The old saying that “Eating fish makes you brainy” may be true after all. Scientists have discovered that the fats found in fish like tuna, sardines and salmon, as well as in olive oil - help to improve the memory. Vitamins C and E (found in fruits) like oranges, strawberries and red grapes and Vitamin B found in lean meat and green vegetables are all good “brain food”, too.

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Caffeine may not be too good for you, but like exercise, it increases your heart rate and sends more oxygen to your brain, too. A cup of coffee really does help you concentrate when you sit down to study. And if you don’t like coffee, don’t worry-experts believe that chewing gum has the same effect!

A) Drink coffee B) Take physical exercise C) Invent a story D) Take an interest - Make an effort E) Form a mental picture | F) Repeat things G) Eat the right things H) Listen to Mozart I) Take mental exercise J) Organize your ideas

2. | IW. Which of the tips in the text would be useful in your future life and career. Say how you try to remember things.

3. | GW. Make collocations and use them inventing a story.

1. to keep something 2. to chunk 3. to change 4. to increase 5. to reduce 6. to improve | a. one’s mind b. heart rate c. in mind d. stress e. memory f. numbers