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I'm Becca.
And I'm Georgie.
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Hi Georgie.
Hello there.
How are you doing today?
I'm pretty good, thank you.
How are you?
Good.
Yeah, I'm also pretty good, but I forgot my lunch today, which is a bit annoying.
But today we are actually talking about forgetting things and memory.
So it's a good topic for today's podcast.
Yes, and memory is your ability to remember things.
So, Becca, do you have a good memory?
I usually do.
This morning, not so much.
Yes, I usually do have... an alright memory, but it depends on what I'm trying to remember.
So I will remember experiences and people very well, but when it comes to tasks or things that I have to do for myself, I must write them down or I will forget them.
I won't remember them.
I'm a very forgetful person.
Yes, everyone knows me to...
Leave things in the house that I needed to bring, or when I, for example, an umbrella.
If I take that out, it will get lost 100.
So I have a terrible memory.
So you don't have a great memory, Georgie.
A memory we used to talk about. the ability to remember something.
But we can also refer to things from the past, our memories from the past.
So do you have any great memories?
I've got lots of good memories.
I think the best memory I have was when I was about eight years old.
I went to a concert, and I went to this concert with my dad, my best friend and her dad.
And it was outside, a summer's day.
It was kind of sunset time.
We were both on our dad's shoulders, singing, dancing.
And she has the exact same memory.
So I know that it's I know that it's real.
It's not fake.
Didn't dream it.
No, I didn't dream it.
But that's one of my favorite memories.
Yeah.
What about you?
I remember my first ever kind of live music concert experience as well, was around the time of November 5th, and here in the UK we often go to see fireworks and it was the first time seeing fireworks.
So yeah, and also my first time like seeing a band play on a stage and yeah, it was a great experience and that's probably why we remember these things, because they do bring us so much happiness and joy when we talk about them.
Yeah exactly um, do you like to think about the past and memories?
I know some people don't like yeah I, I do.
I think it's really lovely to be able to remember, especially the good things from the past.
How about you?
Yeah, I like to reminisce.
Reminisce means that we talk about things from the past, about memories, with with happiness, and that's really fun to do, especially with childhood friends.
Yeah, when I meet up with friends from school, it's it's a lot of fun to kind of think about the good times from school and talk about people that we used to know.
Yeah, reminiscing is is a fun activity.
Yeah, I enjoy it too, so we can talk about things from the past.
But some people also like to keep things, collect things um, from the past.
Mementos, that's what those are called.
Do you like to keep mementos?
I love to keep mementos um, what kinds of things I so I started a collection of fridge magnets from my first solo adventure.
And so you know, I get to see those little mementos every day and I'm reminded all of the places that I've been.
It's nice to look at these mementos and then we reminisce.
Yeah.
Let's recap the language that we learn in that conversation, starting with memory.
So memory is the ability to remember something, but we can also have memories, and memories are things that we remember from the past.
For example, I have a lot of good memories from when I was a child.
We also heard forgetful, which describes a person who does not have a very good memory.
I am a forgetful person.
If we reminisce about something, we talk about our memories from the past, memories that make us happy.
And we heard memento, which is an object which makes you think of a particular memory place or event.
For example, I collect fridge magnets which are a memento of all of the places that I've travelled to.
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