volunteering

1. What job do you hope
to do in future?

2. What factors are important
when choosing a job?

3. What factors are important
when choosing a job? (2 min)
 Near your home
 Working with people
 Travelling a lot
 Working with children
 Part time job
 A convenient schedule
 Well paid

4. Volunteering
- Have you ever thought
that
work can be voluntary
and not only for
money?

5. Volunteering

6. Interviewing classmates(5 min)
 Have you ever done any
voluntary work?
 If so, what did you do?
 If not, would you like to?
 Tell the other groups what you
found out

7. Let’s read
(while reading pay attention to the words in bold)
 Volunteering- for love?

8. Volunteering
 To give up time
 - to sacrifice one’s free time
 To recruit someone
 - enrol (someone) as a member or worker
in an organization
 To win a bid
 - gain a profit/ an offer
 What’s in it for me?
 - what will I gain/have from it?

9. Volunteering
 To squeeze in
 - to find time for something
 A sense of altruism
 - concern for happiness of other human
beings
 Selfish age
 - period when you are concerned
excessively or exclusively with oneself
 Self- awareness
 - an understanding of one's own
personality

10. Discussion on the text
 How many people volunteer in
the UK?
 What do usually volunteers do?
 What motivates people to
volunteer?
 What can you get from
volunteering?

11. Fill in the missing expressions
 I don’t mind ........ .... a couple of hours a
week to deal with correspondence. The
manager ............... several new qualified
workers to organize a party. I just ask you
to keep supporting the director, even after
you ......... ... ...... . I was just trying to
........... ..... a little exercise. You see, the
men who developed a system to predict
crime didn't do so out of a ............. ...
.......... . We live in a ........... ....... . And I
thought that having ............-
........... would change things.

12.  I don’t mind giving up a couple of hours a
week to deal with correspondence.
 The manager recruited several new qualified
workers to organize a party.
 I just ask you to keep supporting the director,
even after you win the bid.
 I was just trying to squeeze in a little exercise.
 You see, the men who developed a system to
predict crime didn't do so out of a sense of
altruism.
 We live in a selfish age.
 And I thought that having self
awareness would change things.

13. Use newly learnt words or other
words from the text and make up
1-2 sentences speaking about
volunteering.

14. Wrap-up