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Thanks and acknowledgements viii

Introduction ı

1 Mental stretching ı5 ı.ı Flash! ı8 ı.2 Reversed drilling 22 ı.3 The broken telephone 23 ı.4 Sentence swapping 25 ı.5 Working-memory challenge 27 ı.6 Waiters 29 ı.7 Delayed TPR 30 ı.8 What did you say again? 3ı ı.9 The longest sentence 33 ı.ı0 Dialogue reconstruction 34 ı.ıı Learner-generated texts 36 ı.ı2 Reordered story 37 ı.ı3 Co-constructed storytelling 40

2 Making language memorable 43 2.ı Memory strategies share 46 2.2 Word knowledge 49 2.3 Word patterns share 50 2.4 Associations 5ı 2.5 Real or imagined? 52 2.6 Well … this is my granddad 53 2.7 Pictorial links 56 2.8 A silly love story 58 2.9 Emotional chants 60 2.ı0 Celebrity rhyming poems 6ı 2.ıı Body talk 65 2.ı2 Skeleton stories 67 2.ı3 Treasure hunt 74 2.ı4 Silly grammar 76

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3 Retrieving 78 3.ı Mime race 8ı 3.2 Word cards 82 3.3 Vocabulary race 85 3.4 Jumbled chunk race 86 3.5 Guess our chunks 88 3.6 Hot seat 89 3.7 I reckon they’ll know that 90 3.8 Gap-fi lling second time around 9ı 3.9 First-letter verb phrases 92 3.ı0 Guess the text 94 3.ıı Languaging memories ı: the fi rst time 96 3.ı2 Languaging memories 2: smellyvision 98

4 Repeating and reactivating 99 4.ı The tie shop joke ı0ı 4.2 The three burglars magic trick ı05 4.3 Anecdotes ı09 4.4 Letters to the class ıı0 4.5 Choral chanting ıı2 4.6 The next word ıı4 4.7 I can’t spell that! ıı7 4.8 Spontaneous translation ıı8 4.9 Retranslated text ıı9 4.ı0 Creating still images ı20 4.ıı Who said it? When? ı22 4.ı2 That’s not how I wrote it ı23 4.ı3 Holiday snaps ı25 4.ı4 Exaggerated accidents ı27 4.ı5 Repeated role plays ı28 4.ı6 Whose story is it? ı29 4.ı7 The listeners ı30

5 Memory techniques and mnemonics ı33 5.ı Chants ı34 5.2 Put it in my pocket ı37 5.3 Where’s the link? ı38 5.4 The story method ı39 5.5 The keyword technique ı42 5.6 Memory techniques survey ı46

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5.7 Mnemonics quiz ı48 5.8 Memory techniques swap ı53 5.9 Memory techniques activation ı58 5.ı0 Acronyms for grammatical patterns ı59

6 Learning by heart ı63 6.ı Co-constructed conversation ı65 6.2 Blocking a dialogue ı68 6.3 Songs ı7ı 6.4 Puns ı74 6.5 News stories ı76 6.6 Poems ı80 6.7 Quotations ı82 6.8 The sample answer recall game ı85

7 Memory games ı87 7.ı Kim’s game ı89 7.2 What’s different? ı90 7.3 Language chains ı9ı 7.4 Remembering unusual sentences ı92 7.5 Slap, clap, click, click ı93 7.6 Pelmanism ı95 7.7 Auditory Pelmanism 200 7.8 First-letter hints 203 7.9 The collocation game 206 7.ı0 The suffi x game 208

References and further reading 2ıı

Websites 2ı4

Index 2ı5

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