English for Professionals: Reading Practice

My Unique Coworker

I have a friend named Eko. He has an unusual character. I can say he is unusual because he is from Central Java, and he is fuzzy even he is a matured man. Sometimes, he always thinks that he is the best of all, even it is not. He gives good compliment for those whom he asks for help.

Even he is an area manager, it is okay for him to make jokes anytime. He says that he wants to look stupid sometimes even I know that he is smart. Contrarily, he looks like acting to know all for things that we don’t know well. I think he does know all regarding to his best achievement amongst us.

He keeps yelling to others for his life philosophy that he likes to save; he survives in hunger; he cares nothing for what people think about him. Recently, I am doing approach to him in order to know his work pattern. I have no idea why his selling target is always over company target. I believe even he is eerie, he has his own strengths that we don’t have.

Adopted from a real story of my business English student.

Read the paragraph and decide whether these statements are true or false.

Joko is a Sundanese T / F
Joko is unusual for his origin T / F
Joko has diferent point of view from any other employees in his work site T / F
His attitude makes his friends uneasy T / F
He talks less than do the other employees T / F
He plans his work well T / F
His monthly achievement is always higher than the others T / F
His life philosophy makes him success T / F
Never does he not make jokes in a day T / F
A success person needn't have outstanding life philosophy T / F

UNIQUE FRIEND AT WORK

Uniqueness sometimes creates different point of view between friends, and that is happening in me to my unique friend, Indah. Her complete name is Indah Lestari. Because I want to be closer with her, I call her Kak Ri. I have an excuse to call her ‘Kak’. It is because she is five years older than me. She is married , and she has two sons. She is a real matured woman. I can say that she is unique because she reacts differently toward problems.

We work in the same company. In our office, she never thinks big about problems that she is facing. As an example when her boss gets angry to her, she just smiles and says “am I available to work again, boss?” When she has problems at home with her family, especially her husband, she never shows it off. If she does not like someone in the office or even next to her cubicle, she will never show that to anybody. She is always happy either when she has more money or when she is running out of it. Hardly ever does she say empty chats. She only speaks what she needs to speak.

Out of office, she does contrarily. She really loves to share. She becomes ‘the real she’ when we hang around either in office hour or on holiday. She often loves things that people do not like. She loves black and pale colors when other women do not. She prefers to be out of beauty when other women prefer to be beautiful. She thinks it is better when people know her deeper, not only from her outlook. She never hurts her mother even once. She never complains to her husband and always speaks politely to him. She often says to me that life is not all about what we want to do. Sometimes, we cannot do what we want to do, but we need to do what people want us to do, for we get what we want. I learn a lot about life from her. Yes, she is unique, and I love her uniqueness.

I. Do silent reading and understand the context of the paragraph

II. Answer some questions below.

1. What is unique about Kak Ri?

2. How does the writer know her?

3. Do you think Kak Ri has double character?

4. Why do you think so?

5. If you have a friend like Kak Ri, which do you like from her?

III. Read out loud and say what is special about the story.

IV. Underline some verbs that you can see in the paragraph.

V. List some adjectives that are in the paragraph.

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VI. Find a pair to ask and answer these questions in vise versa.

a. What good character do you think that Kak Ri has?

b. Are you the same like her?

c. Which is different between you and Kak Ri?

d. If your boss gets angry, will you do the same like Kak Ri?

e. Do you complain to things that bothers you? If yes, why do you complain?

f. Are you unique? If yes, what is your uniqueness?

VII. There are adjectives and verbs below. Circle the adjectives you determine, square the verbs and underline double functioned words (adjective and verb).

Exaggerated in-coming permitted opened

awe enlarge smoothen Beauty wash

understand smooth ease permit large deepen

exaggerate kind loyal sharpen clear

washable famous open clarified awesome

VIII. Make a paragraph based on these orders.

1. Say what kind of person you are.

2. Are you good enough according to people.

3. Who says that you are good

4. What is good about you

5. What should you do to make you better in your environment and more functional to people

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