Listen and complete the sentences.
There’s less
resistance when the time is already
built into day.
Elder children can find what habits are effective for
them individually by trying out several techniques:
flash cards, ____________________ ,
making
up songs, making games for studying.
You should__________________a set place for
kids to study.
Some kids are too___________ _____ to raise
their hand in class if they get behind, show them
other ways to communicate if that is the case.
As they get elder, the tests come with higher
___________________ , so healthy habits will
really play into their success.
When they bring home an assignment or test with
a great_____________ , ask them what they
think helped them the most.
And don’t forget that elder children have
a lot of
5 Find out the differences between the phrases.
\ \ y
What is the difference?
For some people, the prospects of a two hour study
session seems so ___________
, they
don’t want to begin.
Work with your partner and answer the
following questions.
Are you attentive in the classroom?
Do you study just before the exams?
How many hours a day do you study?
Do you attend classes every day?
Do you study with a goal in mind?
Do you study in front of TV?
Do you prefer studying at nights
or mornings?
Do you research about a
topic discussed at school?
Do you prepare for exams
alone
or in a group with
your friends?
1.
Read the following sentences and tick (V) if
they have the same meaning and cross (X) if
not.
a) I went on listening to tapes of recorded
assignments.
b) I went on to listen to tapes of recorded
assignments.
2. a) We saw students using their notes in the exam,
b) We saw students use their notes in the exam.
3. a) I hate being interrupted while reading a book,
b) I hate to be interrupted while reading a book
4. a) Komil stopped leaving assignments at home,
b) Komil stopped to leave assignments at home.
5. a) Why don’t you try experimenting with objects?
b) Why don’t you try to experiment with objects?
6. a) Do you continue taking part in webinars
organised by our University?
b) Do you continue to take part in webinars
organised by our University?
Nearly 60 percent of students listen to music
and 31 percent watch TV when they study.
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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
----- ^
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
