Listening 4

 
Ejercicios preparados por María Del Carmen Guarddon Anelo:

Just to practise a bit:

1. The video is about a ­­­­¹______________ memory system to remember things.

2. The system works by ­­­² ______________ things we want to remember to different places

3. In our example things you want to remember are: sausages, bread, eggs, ­­­³ ____________, pineapple, golden syrup and custard.

4. The route that will be used in the video goes between the place where you are and the ­­­nearby ⁴ ________ .

5. The second landmark, which we’ll link with bread, is a ­­­⁵________________.

6. The third landmark is a ⁶ ____________ in the park and the thing associated is eggs.

7. To remember the next thing, we imagine that phone box ⁷ ___________ has a pineapple crammed into it. 

8. The ⁸ ____________ will be the place that we’ll link with the candles.

9. If you want to use the same route to remember a new list of things, your ^{9 ­­}___________ will magically forget the old objects.

10. Good news: in this way remembering the shopping list is like a ¹⁰ ___________ in the park.

KEYS:

1. classic
2. linking
3. candles
4. bowling alley
5. post box
6. slide
7. suddenly
8. church
9. brain
10. walk  

TRANSCRIPTION:

Here’s a classic memory system that helps you to remember things by linking them to different places.

Imagine you have a number of items to buy the shops.

Ok, now think of a journey you know very, very well like this one, and watch to the nearby bowling alley. You gonna (going to) use the points along this route to remember the list of objects.

Here's what to do: First, think about the start of your walk say it's coming out of the front door of your house. And the first item is sausages. So we want to imagine some sausages and positioned at the front the door. But we want to really remember them, so no toddlers make them, here you'll have to squeeze random to get out.

Ok, so that's item one.

The second landmark keep pass in your imaginary walk is a post box and the second item, is red. You want to associate the bread with the post-box again in some crazy way that will stick in your mind.

Ok, the next landmark is a slide in the Swing Park and the next thing we want to remember is eggs. So let's see the eggs, and drum up some action…..Now you got the idea no problem imagining each of the items in their location.

The phone box suddenly has a pineapple crammed into it. The church get candles, golden syrup drips down the steps of the underpass, lovely, and finally at the bowling alley it´s custard chaos.

Now when using a long journey in your mind you'll be able to remember every single item, in order, or even backwards. When you have a new list to remember you can use the same route again, your brain will magically forget where the old object was and the new one will take its place.

So, it’s official: remembering things it’s a walk in the park. Hey…