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Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

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Warm-up Questions

What kind of tips do you expect to hear in a video called “Three tips to improve your memory”?
Why do you think memory is important in daily life (school, work, relationships)?
What is one thing you do to help you remember information?

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Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

How memories form + a juggling study (00:00 – 01:10)

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1. Which is the final function needed for memories to form?

Forgetting
Recall
Acquiring
Consolidating

2. In the study, how long did one group practise juggling?

Three days
Three months
Three weeks
Three years

3. What changed in the brains of the people who juggled?

No difference in brain activity at all
Only faster reaction times, with no brain changes
A decrease in grey matter in the whole brain
An increase in grey matter in two areas

Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

Tip 1: Use a memory palace (01:10 – 02:33)

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1. What is a “memory palace”?

A type of phone app for reminders
A sleep technique to have better dreams
A place you imagine where you can store information
A real building where people study

2. In step one, how should you move around your room?

Clockwise around your room
In random order
Only from left to right
Anticlockwise around your room

3. Why should you exaggerate the visual image in the memory palace?

To make it more memorable
To make it easier to draw
To make it more realistic
To make it quieter

Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

Tip 2: Sleep + Tip 3: Keep a dream diary (wrap-up) (02:33 – 03:32)

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1. What is the brain doing during sleep, according to the video?

It only controls breathing, nothing else
It is busily processing information from the day to form memories
It stops working completely
It becomes smaller and rests like other muscles

2. What do people who recall their dreams improve?

Their memory and creativity
Their ability to juggle
Their eyesight
Their height and weight

3. When should you write down or sketch your dreams?

Only on weekends
Before you go to bed
As soon as you wake up
At lunchtime

Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

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1. Which three functions does the video say must happen for memories to form?

Eating, sleeping, exercising
Listening, speaking, reading
Acquiring, consolidating, recall
Planning, travelling, relaxing

2. What is the main idea of the juggling example?

Juggling is the best way to learn Spanish
Memory cannot be trained
Only physical skills can improve memory
Practising a new skill can change the brain in areas linked to memory

3. Which tip is connected to using imagination and locations to remember a list?

Only repeating the list aloud
Avoiding sleep
The memory palace
Watching TV before bed

Discussion Questions

Discuss the ideas from this video

Three tips to improve your memory | BBC Ideas

Which of the three tips (exercise/learning a skill, memory palace, dream diary) seems most useful for you? Why?
What simple place could you use as your own memory palace (your room, your kitchen, your walk to school)?
Do you usually remember your dreams? What might make it easier to recall them?
How could you use acquiring, consolidating, and recall to study for a test?