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Volunteering a) There are some strange jobs you can do if you want to be a volunteer in Britain. Write short job descriptions using the words in brackets. Volunteer job Description 1. beach watcher organise the cleaning of the beaches (cleaning) 2. kids theatre volunteer (plays) 3. neighbour dispute mediator (local clashes) 4. resuscitation trainer (life support skills) 5. tandem bike rider (blind people) 6. toad warden (breeding season) b) Look at the words below. Which ones have something to do with volunteering according to your view? 2 love life selfish fitness free time learning difficulty life partner speed-dating Olympic Games to give up sth. to lose weight c) Fill in suitable words from above into the text on volunteering below. Doing some form of voluntary work has never been more popular with British people. Over 20 million people were engaged in voluntary activities in 2013. Volunteering means giving up (1) time to do work of benefit to the community. It can take many forms, from helping children with (2) , working in an animal hospital or planting trees. London, which hosted the 2012 (3) , needed more than 70,000 volunteers to help ensure the games were a success. Volunteers can be anyone of any age. Students and full-time workers alike often manage to squeeze in some volunteer work. But what motivates volunteers? Some do it out of a sense of altruism while others find they have (4) available. But in this (5) age more are asking what they can get out of it. Some mention self- awareness. Others mention the opportunity to get to know people they would not normally meet. A relatively new phenomenon is the hope of meeting new friends or even a (6) through volunteering. In a recent survey 20% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 8% of over-65s said their (7) had improved since they began volunteering. “Volunteering is what (8) promises but never fulfils – a way of seeing a lot of truth about someone you’ve just met in as short a time as possible,” one of the volunteers interviewed mentioned. The same poll found that nearly half of volunteers enjoyed improved health and (9) , a quarter had (10) – especially those working with children or doing conservation projects – and two thirds felt less stressed. So, it seems volunteering may improve your life – you may even find the person of your dreams. 80 The individual and society 16 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv