Your brain is like a muscle: use it or lose it!(cas 4)

Before we start our lesson, here are a few facts about the human brain

Brain surgery can be performed while the patient is awake with no pain or discomfort. The brain has no pain receptors and feels no pain.

Multitasking is actually impossible. When we think we're multitasking, we're actually context-switching. That is, we're quickly switching back-and-forth between different tasks, rather than doing them at the same time. The book Brain Rules explains how detrimental “multitasking” can be: Research shows your error rate goes up 50 per cent and it takes you twice as long to do things.

There are 2,500,000 gigabytes of storage space in your brain. The top-of-the-line iPhone 11Pro has 512.

What do you think can we improve our memory? How?

Open your books on page 68, and let's find out.

Read the text, then answer the questions in exercise B.

Determiners –odrednice

Odrednice ili determinatori su rijeci koje poblize oznacavaju imenicu. To znaci da imenici dodaju informaciju o kolicini, vlasnistvu itd. Determinatori uvijek stoje ispred imenice, a ukoliko ispred imenice stoji I prodjev tada determinator stoji ispred njega.

Najcesci determinatori u engleskom jeziku su:

clanovi (odredjeni i neodredjeni)-the, a /an,

pokazne zamjenice – this, that, these, those,

prisvojne zamjenice- my, your, his, her, its, our, their

Brojevi- one, ten, thirty

odrednice za količinu – some, any, few, little, more, much, many, each, every, both, all, enough, half, little, whole, less…

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