7 Choose the right forms of the verbs.
People who remember (a)(to~doydoing everything
they have planned are usually people who organise
their
tasks in some way, and avoid (b) to get/getting
into a muddle. A shopping list is a good example of this
technique, provided you remember (c) to take/taking
the list with you when you go (d) to shop/shopping.
It’s sometimes possible to remember a fact, for
example, if first of all you stop (e) to think/thinking
8 Match the words with their definitions.
for a few moments. When you try (f) to remembed
remembering something, this will be easier if yoi
have learnt it in an organised way. If you are not sun
how to do this, try (g) to write/writing brief notej
about the text you are reading. Many people find thij
an effective way of learning. After all, it’s easy to read
something and not understand or remember it, usual™
because you have stopped (h) to pav/paving attention]
1 notion
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a) similar to something;
2 hallowed
N\
b) to study hard in order to learn a lot in a short time,
especially for an examination;
3 clutter
c) considered very special and treated with great respect;
4 dimension
►
d) an idea or understanding of something;
5 equation
e) completely full;
6 cram
f) a statement in mathematics that two sets of numbers or I
expressions are equal;
7 jam-packed
g) the mess created when there are too many things in a
place;
8 akin
h) the size of something;
Take the notion that children have specific learning
styles, that some are ‘visual learners’ and others are
auditory; some are «left-brain» students, others «right-
brain.» In a recent review of the relevant research,
published in the journal Psychological Science in the
Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost
zero support for such ideas....
Psychologists have discovered that some of the
most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong.
For instance, many study skills courses insist that
a ) __________, a study room or a quiet corner of
the library, to take their work. The research finds
just the opposite. In one classic 1978 experiment,
psychologists found that college students who studiei
a list of 40 vocabulary words in two different room
one windowless and cluttered, the other modem, wit!
a view on a courtyard b ) __________ who studiei
the words twice, in the same room. Later studies hav
confirmed the finding, for a variety of topics. ...
In a study recently posted online by the joume
Applied Cognitive Psychology, Doug Rohrer an
Kelli Taylor of the University of South Florid
taught a group of fourth graders four equation:
c)
- ~
. Half of the children learned b
studying repeated examples of one equation, sa;
calculating the number of prism faces when given th
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