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Study this picture for 1 minute. Try to remember as much as possible about it.

Now tell your partner about the picture. Take it in turns to say something.

The first 10 steps to improving your memory

• Believe you can improve your memory.• Use it or lose it.• Eat and sleep well.• Be more observant – notice things!• Give yourself time to memorise and take breaks.• Create vivid, memorable images.• Pay attention – you can’t learn something you don’t

understand.• Get regular exercise and don’t smoke.• Over learn.• Learn a foreign language!

1. How many exclamation marks were there in the 10 steps?

2. What was the 3rd letter of the 2nd word of the 1st step?

3. List all 10 steps in the order they appeared in the list.

2

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These sorts of questions are ridiculous and impossible for most of us to answer. We are not expecting you to train your memory for things like that, but rather be able to memorise vocabulary, grammar rules and phrases.

Vocabulario• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

• yellow• and• a sharpener• at 7 o’clock• purple• how much?• in the morning• with• a file• from• but• a pencil• 8• a pair of scissors

The aim of this series of lessons is to eventually be able to do this……

Compare that performance to this one that he did before he had done any work on how to memorise something……

Don’t worry! You won’t be expected to do that straight away. You will build up to it over the next term in the following ways:

1. You will learn how to memorise words.1. You will learn how to memorise words.

2. You will learn how to memorise whole sentences.2. You will learn how to memorise whole sentences.

3. You will learn how to memorise for a spoken 3. You will learn how to memorise for a spoken presentation.presentation.

Vocabulario• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

• yellow• and• a sharpener• at 7 o’clock• purple• how much?• in the morning• with• a file• from• but• a pencil• 8• a pair of scissors

Homework

Below and on the right are the 14 words you have been learning in class today. At the start of the next class you will do a quiz on these words.

Your task for the next lesson is to be able to:

a) Memorise the meaning of the words.

b) Memorise the spelling of the words and how to spell the word out loud

c) Memorise the pronunciation of the words

This is how to complete this task:

1. Use the strategies discussed in class to help you learn the words

2. Using the sheet with the Spanish and English test yourself on the words.

3. After testing each time, use the other side of this sheet to colour code the words in the following way:

Green: I can say and spell this word and know its meaning

Orange/Yellow: I have difficulties with the spelling/pronunciation or meaning

Red/Pink: I am struggling to learn this word.

4. Repeat 1-3 until you manage all words and can colour them green!

• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

1st attempt 4th attempt3rd attempt2nd attempt

• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera

• amarillo• y• un sacapuntas• a las siete• de color violeta• ¿cuánto?• por la mañana• con• una carpeta• de• pero• un lápiz• ocho• una tijera