Humour is one of the best signs that you belong, and one of the hardest things to follow in another variety of English. In Indian workplaces and friendships, teasing is a common way to show warmth: "Arre, look who's on time today!" "Sir has become a big shot now!" "Your English is better than ours, yaar!" Jokes often use wordplay, mixing of languages, exaggeration, and references to food, cricket, films and family life. What you will learn: • Friendly teasing as warmth • Exaggeration and mock-formality • Wordplay and mixing • Common themes • Where humour can GO wrong • Responding in kind • Practice: decode the joke • Listening strategies • Self-check questions to test your ear Level: B1–B2. Self-study: listen, then take the quizzes. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.