Exercise your brain

The Memory Practice

Your Brain Matters

Do you want to access words and ideas faster?
Do words stay on the tip of your tongue?
Do you sometimes forget how to spell a word?

EXERCISE YOUR VERBAL SKILLS
Main brain areas targeted: Temporal lobes

Exercise 1. Words......
(solutions below)

Move the letters around to find another word

SINK

THICKEN

BALM

Find the missing letters

B _ T _ L _


S _ R E _ N

Find a word associated with the 2 words of each pair (homograph)

PIANO – LOCK    (solution = Key)

SCHOOL - EYE

ARMY - WATER

Exercise 2. Texts......
(solutions below)

Fill in the blanks with the words below:

We would walk into the warm, bright _____, to drift, face _____,
over the rocks and clumps of _____, occasionally _____to bring up
something that _____ our eye.

Missing words: seaweed, water, caught, diving, down

Fill in the blanks (missing words not given)

Between gasps M. informed us that he was only _________ to three things:
the pollen of lilac ______, cats, and horses. We all _______ out the window,
but ____ was not a ______-tree for miles. We searched the ________, but
there was no _______ hidden anywhere.

Solutions

Exercise 1

Move the letters around to find another word

SKIN

KITCHEN

LAMB

Find the missing letters

B O T T L E


S C R E E N

Find a word associated with the 2 words of each pair (homograph)

PIANO – LOCK    (solution = Key)

SCHOOL - EYE     (pupil or exam or private)

ARMY - WATER
(tank)

Exercise 2

We would walk into the warm, bright WATER, to drift, face DOWN,

over the rocks and clumps of SEAWEED, occasionally DIVING to bring up

something that CAUGHT our eye.

Between gasps M. informed us that he was only ALLERGIC to three things:

the pollen of lilac FLOWERS, cats, and horses. We all LOOKED out the window,

but THERE was not a LILAC-tree for miles. We searched the ROOM, but

there was no CAT hidden anywhere.