B) Match the volunteer projects with their defi nitions.

A. Providinginformation to visitors, fixing buildings and

picnic tables, answering the telephone, typing letters, leading

Communicative area:asking for and giving information

Active vocabulary:a volunteer, a motto, a hero, a shelter, a

senior citizen, to provide for

Homeless SheltersFood Banks

State Parks

Helping Others Learn to Read Libraries

Hospitals

Senior CitizenCentres

Animals Shelters

Red Cross

Website Creation Environmental Organisations

guided tours, organising hikes and evening programmes, cleaning

the park.

B.If you live in a city of any size, then there is at least one

organisation that helps homeless people with meals, beds and

other services.

C.Reading is one of the most important skills an adult can

have. Many adults, however, have never learned how to read.

Volunteershelp illiterate children and adults learn this important

skill.

D.You can volunteer to return books onto shelves, run children’s

programmes, give out books and so on. This programme

trains volunteers to assist library staff and the public.

E.Helping to take care of animals, keep facilities clean and

work with the public.

F.In this project you can help with environmental activities.

You can help in many ways: by leading hikes and other activities,

or by lending a hand at the office.

G.Many small charities and organisations do not yet have

websites. You can help by creating a website. You could also

raise money to pay for the website.

H.This organisation helps people in emergencies – whether

it’s half a million disaster victims or one sick child who

needs blood.

I.They serve poor people living in the community (especially

around the holidays) by collecting food and distributing it to

those in need.

J.This volunteer job involves helping patients both inside

and outside the hospital. The volunteers programmes allow participants

to explore medical careers and gain work experience.

K.Here you can provide friendship and community activities

for elderly people.

c) Which of the words in bold means:

a) a person who has reached the official age when they can stop

working regularly, a more polite way of saying ‘old person’

b) giving someone, or making it possible for someone to have

something which is useful or which they will need

c) people who do something, especially help other people, willingly

and without being forced or paid to do it

d) a building designed to give protection from bad weather,

danger or attack

d) Which of the volunteer projects would you like to join?

A) Do the questionnaire to decide what kind of volunteer work

You should do.

1. When you meet someone new, what do you do?

a) I give them a big smile and a hug (объятия).

b) I give them a flower I picked in the garden.

c) I attack them with lots of questions.

d) I get excited and start jumping up and down.

2. What mottodo you live by?

a) Hug them, feed them, love them.

b) The 3 R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle.

c) A laugh a day keeps the doctor away.

d) You can’t get anywhere without a good education.

3. Which school club interests you most?

a) Eco-Friends.

b) Friendship Club.

c) Students in the Community ( в обществе).

d) Future Leaders.

4. If you could change one thing in the world, what would it be?

a) Stop global warming.

b) Feed the hungry.

c) Find a cure for every single disease.

d) End the wars – can’t we all just get along.

5. How would your best friends describe you?

a) Fun to be with.

b) Helpful and caring.

c) Smart and brainy.

d) Romantic and dreamy.

6. Who is your hero?

a) Albert Einstein – he was a genius.

b) The Animal Rights Group.

c) Jacques Yve Cousteau – he loved the Earth.

d) Mother Teresa – a true saint (святая).

How to score: 1a – 3; 1b – 1; 1c – 2; 1d – 4;

2a – 3; 2b – 1; 2c – 4; 2d – 2;

3a – 1; 3b – 3; 3c – 4; 3d – 2;

4a – 1; 4b – 3; 4c – 2; 4d – 4;

5a – 4; 5b – 3; 5c – 1; 5d – 2;

6a – 2; 6b – 4; 6c – 1; 6d – 3.

6–11: Your perfect volunteer work is with the environment!

You’re passionate about protecting the environment. You

stand up for recycling and riding bikes to school, you’re

against aerosols, littering and the use of styrofoam in the

school cafeteria. It would be great for you to volunteer at a

recycling depot, at a greenhouse or even for Greenpeace.

12–17: Your perfect volunteer work is with science!

You’re a brainiac who loves learning about all things scientific!

Your room is filled with telescopes to study space and

microscopes to study bugs and bacteria that you find hiding

in the corners of your room. So start volunteering at a museum,

space centre or planetarium to use your brain cells.

18–23: Your perfect volunteer work is with the homeless!

You’re so kind and caring that your friends sometimes mistake

you for their mom! You don’t have a selfish bone in your

body and would do anything to help out sick and homeless

people. That’s why you’re perfectly suited to work at a homeless

shelter or a soup kitchen where you can get to know homeless

people, feed them and maybe even help them get jobs.

b) Which of the words in bold means:

a) a short sentence or phrase that expresses a principle of

good or correct behaviour;

b) a person who is admired for having done something very

brave or having achieved something great, or the main character

in a book, film or play, especially one who is admired for

their good qualities; someone you admire greatly.

c) Do you agree with the questionnaire’s results? Compare your

ideas with your partner’s.

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