Answer — Exercise 2
6 - The past·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
Work in pairs and check you know the meaning of the underlined words in the sentences.
Answer
- nostalgic = feel slightly sad when you remember a particular period in your past
- reminisce = to talk or write about past experiences which you remember with pleasure
- memorable = likely to be remembered for a long time
- take me back = make you remember past events vividly
- vivid memories = clear, exact memories
- vague memories = unclear, inexact memories
- memento = an object you keep in order to remember someone or something
- souvenir = something you buy / receive / give to remember an event or visit (e.g. a holiday)
- forgetful = someone who forgets things easily
- remind = make someone remember something, usually something they have to do
- remember = to have in your memory
- on the tip of my tongue = when you can almost but not quite remember something
- a good / bad / terrible memory for something = find it (e.g. hard) to remember a particular area (e.g. names, new words, faces)
- mnemonics = something such as a special word or sentence that you use to help you remember something
- jog your memory = help you remember something
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