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Using humor at work and school is now seen as healthy, profitable, and sometimes necessary. While some believe humor restricts performance, experience shows this is untrue. People who enjoy their work cannot wait to get there and are less stressed, better at their jobs, and more satisfied. They are witty, energetic, creative, and positive. Humor is the perfect tool to get more pleasure from the day if used appropriately and respectfully. In our fast-paced world, people often underestimate humor's power to combat stress and fatigue compared to expensive and sometimes harmful remedies. Humor stimulates mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, making one feel light, powerful, joyful, and at peace.

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Using humor at work and school is now seen as healthy, profitable, and sometimes necessary. While some believe humor restricts performance, experience shows this is untrue. People who enjoy their work cannot wait to get there and are less stressed, better at their jobs, and more satisfied. They are witty, energetic, creative, and positive. Humor is the perfect tool to get more pleasure from the day if used appropriately and respectfully. In our fast-paced world, people often underestimate humor's power to combat stress and fatigue compared to expensive and sometimes harmful remedies. Humor stimulates mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, making one feel light, powerful, joyful, and at peace.

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Unit2: Reading Comprehension

Using humour at work and school is the new wave of this millennium, believing it is healthy, profitable and
sometimes necessary. If you are too serious and like to work or study all the time, you may be believing the outdated saying:
“ if you’re having fun, you can’t be working”.
A lot of people believe humour restricts performance at work and school. Logic and experience tell us this is just not
the case. People who truly enjoy their work and school can’t wait to get there. This is sometimes confused with being a “
workaholic”, but the people who are fun loving toward their work are less stressed, do a better job and are filled with
satisfaction. They are witty, energetic, creative and positive.
Using your sense of humour at work and school is the perfect tool to get more pleasure out of your day. If you use
your humour appropriately, in moderation and if you respect the boundaries of your situation, you will be surprised how
quickly it will be embraced and adopted by those around you. In our fast-paced world, people are always looking for
solutions to combat stress and fatigue. They often underestimate the power of humour and resort to expensive and
sometimes harmful remedies. They fail to realise that humour can produce wonders! To laugh with passion stimulates you
mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. You feel light, powerful, joyful and at peace with yourself. Along with those
great feelings, come many other benefits: • Humour reduces stress and boosts morale • It facilitates change • It improves
communication • It relieves boredom • It builds confidence
Always remember to take a break from your work and studies to recharge with fun, smiles and laughter. Being over-
serious ‘makes it more difficult to cope with daily tasks.

A . Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
a. Seriousness in the Workplace
b. The Magic of Humour
c. The History of Humour
B. Are these statements true or false? Justify.
a. Some people believe that humour hinders performance at work and school.
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b. People are more productive if they have fun while working or studying.
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c. Humour is sometimes better than medicine.


…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

f. Humour deteriorates senses and makes you numb.


…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

C. Answer these questions.


a. What emotional gain do people get if they use humour at work.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
b. Can you guess from the context what the word ‘ workaholic’ means?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

c. What are the disadvantages of ‘ over-seriousness’?


…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

D. What do the words underlined in the text refer to?


a. ‘ there’ (paragraph 2): …………………
b. ‘ they’ (paragraph2): …………………..

E. Without going back to the text, what are some of the benefits of humour.

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