Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction
Chapter 1: Making mental pictures Imagination and learning Active learning is the secret Linking new information to old information Learning the names of capital cities Making better mental pictures Now let’s see how well this has worked How long will I remember what I have learned? How to remember new information for a long time Chapter 2: Using rhyming reminders The reminder system of memory training Rhyming reminders for numbers Learn the characteristics of living things Let’s see if you can remember Six properties of magnets — another example Improving your understanding A fun way to practise Chapter 3: Learning look-alike reminders Look-alike reminders Remembering a shopping list Shopping list Chapter 4: Creating logical reminders Increasing the reminders to 30 The logical reminders Learning the list of Australian prime ministers Let’s learn 1 to 10 Let’s learn 11 to 20 Let’s learn 21 to 27 Learning abstract information Sound-alike or rhyming?
Imagination and learning Active learning is the secret Linking new information to old information Learning the names of capital cities Making better mental pictures Now let’s see how well this has worked How long will I remember what I have learned? How to remember new information for a long time
Learning the names of capital cities
How to remember new information for a long time
The reminder system of memory training Rhyming reminders for numbers Learn the characteristics of living things Let’s see if you can remember Six properties of magnets — another example Improving your understanding A fun way to practise
Rhyming reminders for numbers
Let’s see if you can remember
Look-alike reminders Remembering a shopping list Shopping list
Shopping list
Increasing the reminders to 30 The logical reminders Learning the list of Australian prime ministers Let’s learn 1 to 10 Let’s learn 11 to 20 Let’s learn 21 to 27 Learning abstract information Sound-alike or rhyming?
The logical reminders
Let’s learn 1 to 10 Let’s learn 11 to 20 Let’s learn 21 to 27
Sound-alike or rhyming?
Chapter 5: How to learn to spell like a genius Making links Some spelling rules What to do when you don’t know the rule Never believe a lie A piece of pie Built on stilts Stationery or stationary? Here or hear? ible or able? ar or er? Delagate or delegate? Complement and compliment? Seperate or separate? Working out your own reminders Alphabet reminders My alphabet reminders Chapter 6: How to solve problems like a genius The power of visualising Using reminders develops creative thinking skills Courses on creative thinking and concentration Answers The tall man/short man problem Extra activities Chapter 7: How to write like a genius How to write to present an argument or persuasive essay 1 Plan what you want to say and how you will say it 2 Begin with an attention-getter 3 State what you want to accomplish 4 Set out your arguments clearly, and deal with them one at a time 5 Give illustrations and examples 6 Summarise what you have written 7 Finish with what you want your reader to do or believe Using the reminders to generate ideas How to write a story essay 1 Begin with an attention-getter 2 Explain the events that led up to the opening paragraph 3 Use plenty of dialogue 4 Use adjectives 5 Use adverbs to describe the action 6 Finish quickly and neatly Good grammar Apostrophes Affect or effect Less or fewer You and I, or you and me Chapter 8: How to summarise information like a genius Using the reminders to write a summary Chapter 9: How to speak like a genius Some rules for giving a good talk Speaker’s nerves Chapter 10: How to learn a language like a genius Fast, easy way to learn a language Play with the language Using the link system to learn vocabulary Learn some French vocab Learn some German essentials Now try learning some Indonesian words Test yourself Play at languages — don’t work at them How would you remember these words? Test yourself Chapter 11: How to sit tests like a genius Before the exam Doing the exam Examination nerves
Making links Some spelling rules What to do when you don’t know the rule Never believe a lie A piece of pie Built on stilts Stationery or stationary? Here or hear? ible or able? ar or er? Delagate or delegate? Complement and compliment? Seperate or separate? Working out your own reminders Alphabet reminders My alphabet reminders
Never believe a lie A piece of pie Built on stilts Stationery or stationary? Here or hear? ible or able? ar or er? Delagate or delegate? Complement and compliment? Seperate or separate? Working out your own reminders
My alphabet reminders
The power of visualising Using reminders develops creative thinking skills Courses on creative thinking and concentration Answers The tall man/short man problem Extra activities
The tall man/short man problem Extra activities
How to write to present an argument or persuasive essay 1 Plan what you want to say and how you will say it 2 Begin with an attention-getter 3 State what you want to accomplish 4 Set out your arguments clearly, and deal with them one at a time 5 Give illustrations and examples 6 Summarise what you have written 7 Finish with what you want your reader to do or believe Using the reminders to generate ideas How to write a story essay 1 Begin with an attention-getter 2 Explain the events that led up to the opening paragraph 3 Use plenty of dialogue 4 Use adjectives 5 Use adverbs to describe the action 6 Finish quickly and neatly Good grammar Apostrophes Affect or effect Less or fewer You and I, or you and me
1 Plan what you want to say and how you will say it 2 Begin with an attention-getter 3 State what you want to accomplish 4 Set out your arguments clearly, and deal with them one at a time 5 Give illustrations and examples 6 Summarise what you have written 7 Finish with what you want your reader to do or believe
1 Begin with an attention-getter 2 Explain the events that led up to the opening paragraph 3 Use plenty of dialogue 4 Use adjectives 5 Use adverbs to describe the action 6 Finish quickly and neatly
Apostrophes Affect or effect Less or fewer You and I, or you and me
Using the reminders to write a summary
Some rules for giving a good talk Speaker’s nerves
Fast, easy way to learn a language Play with the language Using the link system to learn vocabulary Learn some French vocab Learn some German essentials Now try learning some Indonesian words Test yourself Play at languages — don’t work at them How would you remember these words? Test yourself
Learn some French vocab Learn some German essentials Now try learning some Indonesian words Test yourself
How would you remember these words? Test yourself
Before the exam Doing the exam Examination nerves
Chapter 12: Playing a memory party game Making links The linking list method Chapter 13: Learning word-for-word Here’s my method Let’s memorise the quote Let’s learn the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’ How the reminders work for ‘Advance Australia Fair’ Test yourself Chapter 14: Memorising big numbers Remembering numbers Phonetic values Test yourself Turning the letters into words A few simple rules Using the phonetic values to memorise numbers Memorise your PIN Going to the library More things to remember Now test yourself Phonetic reminders Test yourself Chapter 15: Learning the US presidents Remembering the names of US presidents Presidents 1 to 10 Presidents 11 to 20
Making links The linking list method
Here’s my method Let’s memorise the quote Let’s learn the second verse of ‘Advance Australia Fair’ How the reminders work for ‘Advance Australia Fair’ Test yourself
Let’s memorise the quote
How the reminders work for ‘Advance Australia Fair’ Test yourself
Remembering numbers Phonetic values Test yourself Turning the letters into words A few simple rules Using the phonetic values to memorise numbers Memorise your PIN Going to the library More things to remember Now test yourself Phonetic reminders Test yourself
Test yourself
Memorise your PIN Going to the library More things to remember Now test yourself
Remembering the names of US presidents Presidents 1 to 10 Presidents 11 to 20
Presidents 1 to 10 Presidents 11 to 20