Unit 5B: Can you remember? (quantifiers revision)

ARE YOU GOOD AT REMEMBERING?

Most of us express dissatisfaction with our memory, especially when we want to recall some detail and we can't. Some examples are, an address or a telephone number, the time of a meeting, somebody's name, etc. Even people who I think have an excellent memory, complain that they forget things.
Memory works like a bank. You can get to it, only if you put it there. If you didn't deposit it, you can't collect it when you need it.

A lot of people insist, "My memory is terrible, or "I can't remember anything." In most of the cases, their memory is fine. The power to remember is certainly there. They just need to take the time to learn ways to "register" the events more clearly, so they can 'recall" them more successfully, later

Do you agree with these statements? Does this happen to you quite frequently?











A good video that can help you improve your memory.


Look at what Dr Angela Chang says about our memory: "You WERE NOT born with a poor memory. Remembering is a process that must be learned, just like walking, talking, eating, telling colors apart, distinguishing sounds, and telling time. You learned these when you were a child, and now you can perform them without effort, without being conscious of the mental processes involved. You can learn the process of using your memory just as thoroughly, and when you do you will have in your power a hundred times the knowledge and experience you actually put to use now. Anyone can do it."


A video that shows you the basics to improve your memory.





Let's practice the quantifiers. Take the following exercises and check how good you are in the issue.

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5 (gap filling text)
Exercise 6 (very long test; try only the first 30 questions)
Exercise 7



Let's practise the word formation with the following exercises.

Word formation 1 (forming adjectives and adverbs)
Word formation 2 (forming verbs)
Word formation 3 (forming the opposite)
Word formation 4
Word formation 5 (from BBC learning English webpage)
Word formation 6 (a text)


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