When you think you're lost, sit down on the log or a rock, or lean against the tree, and recite something that you have memorized, to bring your mind to a point where it is under control.
But it's about building the skill of flexibility and the ability to respond rather than just memorizing and reciting your answers which doesn't always work in IELTS.
Anyone could become a druid, but the training required many years of study and memorization — the druids were not allowed to record any of their teachings in writing.
In 19th-century Britain, there were many working-class botanists, men and women who'd taught themselves botany by memorising the Latin names of plants in pubs after long and taxing work hours.
It's very easy for ETS raters to identify memorized responses because they sound different and the content is different from responses that are more natural and spontaneous.
He spoke with a very slow, distinct voice, as if he was dictating his memoirs, and always looked over the shoulder of the person to whom he was talking.
In sixth grade each of us had to commit a poem to memory, and then recite it before the class using appropriate dramatic gestures and clear enunciation.