Volunteering can help improve English skills. It is an altruistic activity that takes many forms in fields like medicine, education, and IT. Volunteering benefits the community and helps gain Canadian experience, meet people to network with, and improve English through speaking, listening, and writing on the job. Opportunities can be found through organizations needing help or online sites like PillarV.com. Both field-related and general volunteer roles provide chances to enhance English abilities.
2. What is Volunteering?
It is an alturistic activity. Volunteering takes many forms and the
people works in, such as medicine, education, emergency or
rescue, IT, etc.
3. Why the volunteering is important?
• To contribute with the community.
• To gain "Canadian experience".
• To meet people (increase networking).
• To improve English skills.
4. Where can you find volunteers jobs?
It depends...
• Some organizations, such as Cross Cultural Learner Centre,
or the library, those organizations need people to contribute
with others.
• On-line, the most common website is www.pillarv.com
5. What kind of volunteer job can you do?
Looking for a job in your field:
• Look for volunteer jobs relative with your field, example: if
you are a doctor/nurse, look into a hospital.
Looking for improve your English Skills:
• Look in any place.
6. How can you improve your English
skills?
When you work with other people, you must have to speak,
listen and writing. That means, if you are a volunteer, you can
improve your speaking, listening and writing.
7. Vocabulary
Networking: Interact with other people to exchange information
and develop contacts, esp. to further one's career.
Skills: The ability to do something well; expertise
