1、For a Better Brain,Learn a New Language2AU2 Reading BPredict:What is the author likely to talk about in the passage?How learning a new language can benefit our brain.Read Para.1 and the first one or two sentences of the following paragraphs to prove your prediction.Q1:Which word appeared frequently
2、in this paragraph?almostQ2:Why does the author use so many“magic”in the first paragraph?to arouse interest and to introduce the topictopic sentencepara.2para.3para.4How many effects are mentioned in the passage?It turns out language learning can make our brain grow biggerLearning a new language coul
3、d help make that dream(being able to focus better)come trueProviding your brain with a workout has considerable health benefitsdeveloping the braintuning out distractionsdelaying Alzheimers diseasetopic sentenceeffectpara.2It turns out language learning can make our brain grow biggerdeveloping the b
4、rainpara.3Learning a new language could hlp make that dearm(being able to focus better)come truetuning out distractionspara.4Providing your brain with a workout has considerable health benefitsdelaying Alzheimers diseaseRead Para.2 and find out the details of the experiment How does the author prove
5、 these effects that language learning has on our brains?research/experimentStudy objects?Study process?Results?Conclusions?What does a research report usually include?Para.2study objectsprocessresultsconclusionsboth were given MRI scans at the begining and again after three monthsbrain sturcture cha
6、ngedThe results suggest that language learning is a promising way to keep brain in shape and offers enhanced cognitive benefits that ourperform other forms of studydeveloping the brain1）students who went through a demanding language learning programme2）control group:students who study science and me
7、dicineNow,its your turn.Read Para.3 and make a similar table to introduce the second research the author used.Effect 2:study objectsprocessresultsconclusionstuning out distractionsindividuals who speak one or two languageslistening to one word and then selecting the corresponding image from a group
8、of four.The trick was that each group had a distracting word added to it.individuals who speak two languages were better at filtering out the distracting wordsThe result reveals that people who only speak one language had to work harder to complete the taskEffect 3:delaying Alzheimers diseasea resultreasonsWhats the reason behind?What does the“workout”refer to?brainmindphysicallymentally
