Read the Vocabulary bank at the end of the Course Book unit. Decide when, if at all, to refer your students to it. The best time is probably at the very end of the lesson or the beginning of the next lesson, as a summary/revision.
Lesson aims
• understand and use some general academic fixed phrases
• understand and use fixed phrases and compound nouns from the discipline
Introduction
1 Revise some noun phrases (noun + noun, adjective + noun) from previous units. Give students two or three minutes to make word stars with a base word, trying to find as many possible combinations as they can (preferably without having to look at dictionaries).
For example: long-term secondary memory short-term primary
Other base words which could be used are information, processing, context. If they are stuck for ideas, tell them to look back at previous units.
2 Introduce the topic of the lesson by asking students to look at pictures of the brain on page 55 of the Course Book for 30 seconds. Ask them to memorize the different parts of the brain. Time them. Tell them to close their books and write down the name for each part. Check if they remembered all of them and if they spelt them correctly. Ask how they remembered. Explain mnemonics: the technique of remembering items by associating them with each other. Allow discussion of individual preferences for remembering.