Занятия для тех, кому нужен продвинутый английский


Онлайн-проект Марины Бочаровой "Английский свободно"

Занятия для тех, кому нужен продвинутый английский


Онлайн-проект Марины Бочаровой "Английский свободно"
These are some of the pre-session materials for my Language Lovers Speaking Club.
You're welcome to join our English speaking sessions or to purchase Club materials.
Pre-reading: the mindmap, questions amd quiz below are based on the following articles:
Memory & Its Workings — Materials
Language Lovers Club

Memory & Its Workings

Synthesis

The whole pre-reading on one page

Six branches, one core idea. Use this as a shared screen during the session — every branch maps back to a slide in the pre-reading deck.

1 · Myths & Reality

  • Memory is not a video recorder — it is reconstructive
  • Memory ≠ rote facts; memory and understanding are intertwined
  • You need memory to understand, understanding to remember
  • Memory is counterintuitive → experience alone isn't enough

2 · Two Stores

  • Working memory: seconds · 4–7 items · prefrontal cortex
  • Long-term memory: hours → years · unconscious until retrieved
  • Declarative (facts) vs. Procedural (skills)
  • H.M.: no hippocampus → no new facts, but new motor skills still learned

3 · Making a Memory

  • Encoding — filtered by attention, emotion, relevance; hippocampus binds the trace
  • Consolidation — hippocampus → neocortex, mainly during sleep
  • Retrieval — reactivating strengthens the pathway
  • "Neurons that fire together, wire together" (Hebbian)
  • ~86 billion neurons · ~150 trillion synapses
Core Idea Memory &
Its Workings How We Learn

4 · Forgetting

  • Ebbinghaus: steep drop in hours and days, then levels off
  • Accelerators: interference, missing cues, stress, sleep loss
  • Antidote: spaced repetition at growing intervals
  • Review works best once forgetting has begun

5 · Desirable Difficulties

  • Bjork & Bjork (2011): harder now, better later
  • Retrieval practice beats rereading
  • Interleaving — mix topics and problem types
  • Context variation — change room, task, groupings
  • Deep processing — link to prior knowledge, build meaning
  • Underused precisely because they feel worse

6 · In Practice

  • Learners: self-test · offload to free working memory · protect 7–9h sleep · space sessions
  • Teachers: link to prior knowledge · short input bursts · vary practice context · assessment as learning
  • Read critically: blog posts and app marketing ≠ research findings
Speaking Practice

12 discussion cards

Read the question and share your answer. If you get stuck or need some inspiration, click Show prompts to reveal deeper questions and useful vocabulary to help you express your thoughts.

Check Understanding

12-question quiz

Click an answer to get instant feedback and a short explanation. Use it live — ask the group to commit to an answer before you click.

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Language Lovers Club with Marina Bocharova vk.ru/fluent_english_club
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