Memory: verbs and collocations C1 Gold Expert U1

Some people can remember conversations word for word

• consciously memorise

• remember exactly

• cause me to recall

• help me remember

People need to jog my memory about things like that.

• consciously memorise

• stop myself remembering

• cause me to recall

• help me remember

I tend to block out memories of things that upset me

• consciously memorise

• stop myself remembering

• cause me to recall

• remembered only the things I want

I don’t commit faces to memory.

• consciously memorise

• remember exacly

• cause me to recall

• remembered only the things I want

My sister said I had a selective memory.

• consciously memorise

• remember exacly

• cause me to recall

• remembered only the things I want

A pair of eyes can trigger a memory of someone I’ve seen before.

• help me remember

• remember exacly

• cause me to recall

• remembered only the things I want

In spy films they usually have to_______ information to memory having read or heard it once

My brother was in a car accident and _______ out the memory of it for a whole year.

I know I’m going to forget to phone Tina – can you ________my memory nearer the time, please?

I can’t remember the instructions__________ , but I’ve got the gist