Page 86 Exercise 4b

Jill remembers every day of her life and never forgets anything.

It’s a problem because she can’t forget painful and unpleasant memories.

Page 86 Exercise d
1 The writer was born on 24 January 1968.
2 The writer was 18, and Jill Price remembers she was working in an ice cream
shop.
3 The writer met Jill Price for dinner at a restaurant in Beverly Hills.
4 Jill remembers that on the date she met the writer, it would have been Prince
Andrew and Fergie’s 22nd wedding anniversary.
5 Jill was born in New Jersey.
6 She moved to California when she was eight, which is when she thinks her brain
‘snapped’.
7 Her memory has been near perfect since 1980.
8 Crying helps her cope with the unhappiness that her memory can cause.
9 Doctors have been studying Jill since 2000.
10 Michael is her brother, who is happy not to have Jill’s memory.

Page 87 Exercise 5a
remember: me|mo|ry me|mo|ra|ble me|mo|rize me|mo|ri|al me|moirs
forget: for|get|ful un|for|get|ta|ble

In which word family

a) is the stress always on the same syllable forget
b) does the stress change on one of the words? remember

Page 87 Exercise 5b
REMEM BER
1 memorize
2 memory
3 memorial
4 memoirs
5 memorable
FORGET
6 unforgettable
7 forgetful