Inside view
Conversation 1
2. Answers：
| You | Mark |
| True | False | True | False |
| 1 Physical exercise improves your memory. |
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| T (He’s right.) |
| 2 Thirty per cent of people have a visual memory. |
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| T (He’s wrong.) |
| 3 When you’re tired, it’s more difficult to remember things. |
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| T (He’s right.) |
| 4 If you do one activity for a long time, your memory will improve. |
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| T (He’s wrong.) |
| 5 Eating fruit and vegetables can improve your memory. |
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| T (He’s right.) |
3. Answers：
1) “How much do you know about memory?
2) He says he's got a pretty good memory.
3) He says he can't remember a thing when he's tired.
4) He says he read something about memory in it.
5) She jokes, “Oh, Mark! What a good memory you have!”
6）Because Mark forgot he had a lecture.
4. Answers：
1, 3 and 4.
Conversation 2
5. Answers：1 (c) 2 (b) 3 (d) 4 (a) 5 (d)
6. Answers：
(1) What's up
(2) quite hard
(3) large classes
(4) memorize a lot
(5) critical thinking
(6) giving your opinion
(7) examine it
(8) ask a question
7. Answers： 1 (a) 2 (a) 3 (b) 4 (a) 5 (a) 6 (a)
8. Answers：
Student A I’m studying economics. I enjoy the parts where i can use maths because I’m good at that.
Student B But I imagine there are quite a lot of economic theories or case studies where your ability at maths doesn’t really help much...
Student A That’s right. The problem is that alot of the you have to remember lots of details and, to be honest, I don’t findit easy to remember all that stuff.
Student B But I’m sure you’re getting better atit, aren’t you? I’ve heard that a good way to remember that kind of thing is touse your imagination and make stories. You know, you link together lots offactual details about a case by imagining a story that connects themtogether-it helps you remember the details because you can picture it easily inyour mind.
Student A Well, I suppose I could try that...It can’t be more difficult than what I’m trying to do now!
Student B Yes, the point is that memory experts always make pictures in their head to link things together...you know, things like telephone numbers, statistics, dates, and so on. The fact is, it’s easier to remember pictures...
Student A Actually, I don’t think that’s rightand studying economics isn’t like learning telephone numbers!
Student B Well, I’m only telling you what I readin a newspaper article. It quoted several memory experts and one of them had remembered all the figures from the last five years’ reports on the worldeconomy, so I think that way of remembering things might help you, actually.
Student A Well, you must be right. It would helpme if I could remember all the details of those reports...
Outside view
Answers
1. Answers：
1 A mind map is a diagram that helps us generate and organize ideas.
2 We use mind maps to brainstorm ideas and understand connections between ideas. We can also use them for note-taking, problem-solving and exam-preparation.
3 Mind maps help us grasp key ideas quickly. They also encourage creativethinking because they are illogical.
2. Answers：
1 organize or structure
2 brainstorm ideas
3 main ideas, understand connections
4 solve a problem
5 visual
6 long texts
7outside of the box
3. Answers：
1 There is a centre.
2 There are only words, not sentences
3 It looks like a tree.
4 You used a lot of colours.
4. Answers： 1 (d) 2 (b) 3 (a) 4 (d)
5. Answers：
1 •Mind-mapping makes you think about the key words or ideas in a different way, and think more deeply about the topic.
•I find that visual approaches to learning suit me, so this way is certainly helpful.
2 Mind maps give you a good overview of a subject and they can help you to remember key ideas and connections. But you still need detailed notes to understand a subject in depth.
3 •Yes, it has, because this method is really useful for revision and it’s adifferent way to remember some things we have to learn, so i will use it infuture.
•No, I would need more help before I could dothis for myself-just seeing one example on a video isn’t enough. Maybe if wepractised this in groups I could learn to use mind-mapping, but I can’t do thisalone now!
6. Answers：
In the video clip a teacher presents ideas about mindmaps. Mind maps are diagrams which help to brainstorm ideas and organize themin relation to a topic. They give an overview, help us to understandconnections, and are useful for revision and problem-solving. The advantages ofmind maps are that they are visual ways of making summarises of key ideas andconnections, and because they are illogical they help us to think creatively. The teacher also shows the students how to construct a mind map, and thefeatures of the design of a mind map.
Listening in
Answers
2. Answers：
1 This depends on the type of stroke: Drugs mayhelp with some types of stroke; physiotherapy may help with movement andsensation; speech and language therapy can help with recovery of language.
2 Yes, they can but not always: About a thirdof major strokes are fatal, a third leave some disability and a third lead torecovery with no lasting bad effects.
3. Answers：
Age:51
Age when the stroke occured: 50
Number of weeks of speech and language therapy: 12weeks
Lengthof time in hospital: three and a half months
4. Answers：
1 No, not that much.
2 There were hospital staff bending over him. And he couldn’t speak, and he couldn’t understand much that people said to him either.
3 She used exercises to help him learn to speak again.
4 A special computer programme.
5 Yes, he did.
6 Being given the right drug at the right time and having a lot of therapy.
5. Answers：
1 in white coats
2 my family
3 almost immediately
4 words and pictures
5 a lot of words
6 read and write
7 the right time
7. Answers：
1 I think it should be bright, cheerful and stimulating so that children want to go there. The teachers need to make the children feel welcome and safe. The environment needs to be encouraging but disciplined.
2 • Well, it’s very important for young children to be active, to play games and to run around, but this has to bebalanced with quiet times and the need for children to rest as well.
•I think children probably learn by doing things and not just by listening to adults, so physical activities are important.
3 This is actually a tricky question: Teachers direct children’s learning activities but what the children actually learn isup to themselves, so in the end children control their own learning in an environment set up by theteacher. I am not sure if many learners actually realize this.
4 I would say it is very important that children not only use their imagination but also be trained to use it creatively and constructively in thinking and solving problems.
8. Answers：
1 1907, traditional teaching
2 very quiet, very clean
3 direct their own learning
4 observe them
5 made of wood
6 physical activity
7 their imagination
9. Answers：
1 (a) 2 (b) 3 (a) 4 (d) 5 (d)
