Vocabulary

improve - улучшать exercise - упражнять as well as - так же, как и elderly - пожилой brain - мозг advice - совет particular - определенный imagine - представлять the same - тот же самый shape - форма, контур look like - быть похожим famous - знаменитый list - список boot - сапог

amazing - удивительный board - доска rub out - стирать

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions:

1. Why is Dominic also a big success?

2. How much time does it take him to remember the names?

3. What is Chinese famous for?

4. Why do people forget things?

5. What are the ways to remember things?

6. Why do some people need to forget?

7. What kind of problem did the Russian have?

8. How could he forget things?

Exercise 2. Are these sentences true or false?

1. Old people often lose their memories because they don't take exercise.

2. When you meet a person, always imagine him in goal on a football field.

3. It is easier to remember the shape of some countries than others.

4. It is important to connect the name of the person you are meeting with someone or something you know.

5. The Russian could never forget anything.

Exercise 3. Give the English equivalents for:

1. пользоваться успехом

2. представить картину мысленно

3. тренировать мозг

4. то же имя

5. быть похожим

6. определенное место

7. большинство из нас

8. пожилые люди

9. терять память

10.давать совет

Exercise 4. Translate into English:

1. Он всегда пользуется большим успехом благодаря своей памяти.

2. Я могу запомнить только несколько имен и телефонных номеров.

3. Чтобы улучшить память, вы должны тренировать мозг.

4. Вы не можете запомнить даже номера телефонов своих друзей.

5. Я запомнил его, потому что у него было такое же имя, как и у моего брата.

6. Есть много способов запоминать разные вещи.

7. Один человек мог запомнить список из нескольких тысяч слов, но ему трудно было забывать информацию.

8. Единственный способ для него забыть информацию - это представить, что он стирает ее с доски.

Exercise 5. Speaking.

1. How good is your memory?

2. Do you ever forget things? What?

3. What do you do to help you remember?

UNIT 4.

One of Those Days

Everybody has "one of those days" when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry. He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his аlаrm clock. He tried to shave quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing so he started to iron it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter. He showed him where the meter was, said goodbye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time he was very late indeed so he decided he couldn't go to work by bus. He telephoned to a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper.

In another part of the town a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to escape in a taxi. When Harry's taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry's shirt, and thinking he was the murderer, arrested him and took him to the police station. It took him till 3 o'clock in the afternoon to convince the police that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about quarter to four, his boss took one look at him and told him go away and find another job.