October 4, 2012

Don't forget we all have a brain!



Source: Google images
You have just read a text about the memory capacity of the human brain and we have worked some vocabulary around this topic. This theme is very interesting, there are numerous studies going on about it in order to try to understand and explain the complexity of the human brain.

Some time ago there was a piece of surprising news about Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man who has an incredible ability to draw buildings in specific and accurate detail after seeing them just once. In fact, some scientists think they have identified the part of the brain, which if switched off, can stimulate artistic genius.

Watch this amazing case (click the link below the image).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8327199.stm

You can now work some idioms on memory here and when you are ready, do the quiz.