Exercise your verbal abilities...

Exercise your verbal abilities

Verbal abilities--the accurate use of spoken or written words--make demands on short-term and long-term memory. Listen to the morning news on the radio or TV. During the day, write down the main points of the news that you remember. Do the same in the evening. Whenever you meet someone, try to come up with at least one anagram of his or her name. When you see a word--any word--quickly think of others that begin with the same two letters. Each time you come to the end of a chapter in a book you are reading, do a summarize..  as briefly as possible, orally or in writing, to someone who has not read it. Do the same for the whole book when you finish it.