1、Unit 9 Learning Viewing Workshop 【学习目标】【学习目标】 You will be able to 1. discuss ways to learn and develop our brain 2. watch and understand a video on the lesson topic 3. extract specific details from a video and answer questions 4. give a presentation 【学习重难点】【学习重难点】 Understanding specific details of a
2、 video and talking about ways to develop our brain 【学习过程】【学习过程】 1. How do you understand the saying that “You can never teach an old dog new tricks.”? 2. Do you think we can only learn certain topics at certain times? 3. What do you want to know about our brain? 4. What is the main idea of the video
3、? 5. What abilities or actions are best learnt or done in the two sensitive stages? Experience Expectant Learning Experience Dependent Development 6. Watch the final part of the video and answer questions. 1) What is “brain plasticity”? Why is it important for the function of the brain? 2) What is the result of the people taking juggling exercises in just three months in the 2004 research? 7. What advice would you give to the following two groups of people? To elderly people To parents of school children