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Use the following word combinations in contexts of your own. Study the words. I. Vocabulary work Laugh Your Stress Away Medical Care Unit 4 Publican Jailed for Assault Task 2. Act out the story.
Brian S, aged 38, a publican at M was found guilty at Bristol crown Court yesterday of assaulting a “gentle tax man” who was removing bar furniture as payment of an outstanding tax debt. Mr S was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for an assault on Mr David T, aged 42, a tax collector. Mr and Mrs S had both denied causing bodily harm to Mr T at their public house on June 15.
Recoil, trigger, play up, defuse, foible, maneuver, disinterested, inanimate, the butt of a joke, stress buster, belly laugh, temporary stress release. Temporary stress release, an immediate recoil, inanimate sources of frustration, disinterested observation, to be caught in a situation, to step back from a situation, to come as a refreshing shock, to take the edge off the situation.
1. The physiological effects of a good laugh work against stress. Exercise has psychological benefits as well as physiological ones.
2. After a slight rise in heart rate and blood pressure during the laugh itself, there’s an immediate recoil. After he fired the powerful shotgun, the recoil knocked him backwards.
3. Muscles relax and blood pressure sinks below prelaugh levels, and the brain may release endorphins, the same stress reducers that are triggered by exercise. Exercising, eating chocolate, and being in love release endorphins in the body.
4. Muscles relax and blood pressure sinks below prelaugh levels, and the brain may release endorphins, the same stress reducers that are triggered by exercise. The rioting in the city was triggered by the judge’s unfair ruling.
5. While our cave-dwelling ancestors were stressed by actual life-threatening situations like bumping into a woolly mammoth, times have changed. Scientists do not know for sure why the mammoth disappeared.
6. The same kind of disinterested observation makes the tale of your disastrous vacation seem funny – after you get safely home. Referees and umpires must be disinterested in who wins the games they officiate at.
7. The continental drift moves faster. During World War II, continental warfare enveloped nearly all of Europe.
8. This maneuver helps take the edge off the situation, redirects your tension, and helps you see things as not so impossible after all. I tried to talk the police officer out of giving me a speeding ticket by being friendly and polite, but the maneuver failed.
9. Making fun of your own foibles can save face in an embarrassing situation – you’ll have people laughing with you, rather than at you. He was a practical joker and a nonstop talker, but he was so talented that we overlooked these foibles.
10. Inanimate sources of frustration, like computers and copying machines, are also safe objects of humor. The actor’s performance was so stiff that he seemed almost inanimate.
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