Testing your brain

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.

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In this podcast, we have real conversations

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in easy English to help you learn.

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I'm Georgie.

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And I'm Neil.

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How are you today?

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I'm pretty good. How about you?

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Yes. I'm good.

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It's the morning, so my brain is fresh and ready for the day.

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Excellent, because we're talking today about our brains.

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We are. We're going to talk about how we keep our minds active.

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So, kind of like exercise for our brains.

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Shall we get started?

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Let's do it.

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So, Neil, do you think you have a good memory?

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Well, it depends.

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I can remember things that happened years ago

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that don't seem very significant at all.

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And then I can struggle to remember what I did at the weekend.

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I have the same problem.

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I guess that's the difference between our long-term memory –

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so, that's things that happened a long time ago.

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And the short term memory –

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so, things that we did this morning,

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I also struggle to remember what I had for breakfast and things like that.

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So, Neil, is there a time recently where you couldn't remember something

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and it was annoying?

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Well, I did a quiz with my daughter, and she's 15 and quite sharp.

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And I knew all of the answers.