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HAVE A GOOD LAUGH!

Experts often refer to exercise, a balanced diet and plenty of rest as thethree essential factors for good health in the stressful society in which welive. According to leading doctors, laughter is also extremely important to our

general well-being. When we laugh, energy is pumped around the body and it perks up the wholesystem. Our stress levels are reduced, which means laughter has a calming effect on us.

More importantly, perhaps, is the fact that laughter releases chemicals into the body. Thesechemicals are natural pain suppressants and they affect the immune system, helping to speed uphealing processes and activating hormones which kill disease cells. In fact, in 1991, the first freeLaughter Clinic was set up in Britain so that patients could have fun, which helps them to getbetter more quickly.

According to one doctor, laughter is a total body experience in which all the major system of thebody, such as muscles, nerves, heart, brain and digestion, participate fully, so laughter is almost

equivalent to a form of exercise. However, it is important to bear in mind that we are talkingabout laughter as opposed to just a smile, in other words, a belly laugh says Howard Kent ofthe Yoga for Health Association.

So how are we to fill our lives with merriment? Every happy home should have a laughterlibrary of joke books, classic cartoon books, collections of humorous quotations and audiocassettes of our favourite comedians, comedy videos, fun board games, comic plays, novels andamusingbiographies.

1 - LINK THE WORDS IN COLUMN A WITH THEIR DEFINITION IN COLUMN B:

2 - CIRCLE THE OPTION THAT BEST DEFINES THE WORD IN BOLD:

A B

Stressful private collection

Bear in mind entertaining

Merriment remember

Library amusement

Amusing tense

Exercise = operation concern movement drill

Whole = sanitary entire principle intact

Speed up = accelerate race emphasize increase

Major = commander mayor main special

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3 - ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

4 - TRUE OR FALSE?

EXERCISE 1

Stressful tense

1.- What are the three most important factors for good health?

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2.- What happens when laughter pumps energy around the body?

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3.- Why do laughter clinic patients get better faster?

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4.- What is laughter similar to?

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5.- Is laughter similar to a smile?

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1.- When we laugh we dont get rid of stress. _______

2.- Some chemicals released when we laugh are a kind of pain killers. _______

3.- The main purpose of laughter clinics is to cure ill people. _______

4.- To get the most of laughter it must be quiet and relaxed. _______

5.- You should have a habit of reading humorous materials. _______

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Bear in mind remember

Merriment amusement

Library private collection

Amusing entertaining

EXERCISE 2

Exercise - Movement

Whole - Entire

Speed up Accelerate

Major Main

EXERCISE 3

1.- The three most important factors for good health are exercise, a balanced diet and plenty of rest

2.- When laughter pumps energy around the body it perks up the whole system

3.-Laughter clinic patients get better faster because laughter speeds up healing processes andactivates hormones which kill disease cells

4.- Laughter is similar to a form of exercise

5.- No, it isnt according to Howard Kent

EXERCISE 4

1. False

2. True

3. False

4. False

5. true