UNIT 3 - Nostalgia

Ani-Sept-2018
 Warming up
• What stage of life do you think most people remember as the happiest?
What stage do most people remember as the most difficult?
• What types of things do we store in our memories?
• Look at the situations below. What types of things do you need to
remember in order to do well in each situation?

Getting along with family - making new friends - playing a game or sport
preparing a meal - taking an exam - traveling from home to work/school
 Vocabulary preview
How much do you know about Memory?
a. Eyewitnesses 1. About 40% of people can ____ being newborn babies.
b. Hippocampus 2. The more often ___ describe what they saw, the less ___ their
c. long-term memories become.

d. Neuroscientis 3. All memories are stored in tiny part of their brain called the ____
t 4. Almost all of our___-what we see, hear, taste, smell, and feel- are
e. Perception immediately forgotten.

f. Recall 5. Your ___ memory can remember only about seven things for 30
seconds.
g. short-term
6. Once something enters your ___ memory, you will never forget it.
h. stable
7. After decades of studying the brain, ___ have developed drugs that
can give laboratory mice perfect memories.
 Reading Skills
Understanding analogies
Critical thinking
in a text
How one thing is
Is a figure of Identifying source of
similar to one
speech infomation
another
 Before you read

• What is your earliest memory? Is it strong or faint?

• What are some of the strongest memories you have
from your childhood?
• What are some things that people often have trouble
remembering or aren’t able to recall?
 Understanding Analogies in A Text
• An analogy is a figure of speech that shows how one thing are similar to
another (X is like Y) e.g., A unicycle is like a bicycle, except it has one
wheel.
• Analogies often use to make an idea clearer by showing how an
unfamiliar concept is similar to something that readers know well.
• Analogies is used to develop and expand main idea over the course of a
text.
• It is important to recognize and follow analogies
After reading the text pp. 30-31
Do exercise 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 p. 29
 Critical thinking skill:
Identifying source of information
• In academic essays, news reports, opinion pieces, and similar texts,
writers presents information from a variety of sources in order to inform
or persuade readers. For this reasons, it is important to identify the
sources of these facts and claims as you read. Think about where the
writer gets this information and whether the source is credible. As a
general rules, good writers will identify their sources of information a
clearly a s possible and only use reliable sources.
Do exercise 1, 2, 3 and discussion questions p. 29
 Language Development- Reporting Information
• Reporting verbs: say, state, explain to give source of information. Theses verbs
follow by that and a noun phrase.
• Verbs such as show, prove, and demonstrate mean that the writer believes that
information is true, or a proven fact.
• Verbs such as claim, suggest, and argue mean that writer does not believe that the
information has been proven.
• According to is use to show sources of information and in fact to report
information that you believe is true.
• Verbs such as believe and learn are used for people but not for studies or reports.
Do exercise 1, 2, and 3 p. 32-33.
 Assignment
• Prepare your presentation.
• Read Unit 4 and prepare some questions (the rest of the groups).

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