Listening / Speaking

1. | CW. Answer the questions generalising your ideas. Which of the things below do you think improves your memory? Which of them doesn't help to improve your memory?

• Doing puzzles and crosswords • Keeping your brain fit • Increasing your heart rate • Getting oxygen to your brain • Eating fruit and vegetables • Listening to classical music | • Listening to rock music • Chewing gum • Eating fish • Having enough hours of sleep • Working a lot • Stress

2. | CW. Look at the graphics about the power of positive and negative self-talk. Make a speech looking through the Remember box.

| Stress Stress is one of the Brain s worst enemies. It destroys Brain Cells and damages a region of the brain involved in the formation of new memories and the retrieval (the process of getting something back) old ones. Memory is often understood as an informational processing system with explicit and implicit functioning that is made up of a sensory processor, short-term (or working) memory, and long-term memory. We are typically not aware of what is in our memory until we need to use that bit of information Cognitive* psychologist Margaret W. Matlin has described memory as the “process of retaining information over time.” Others have defined it as the ability to use our past experiences to determine our future path.

*cognitive - connected with mental process of understanding