[Music] welcome to english listening and vocabulary [Music] section 2 you will hear a woman talking to a group of college students about volunteering to help other people first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14. [Music] now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14. good morning my name's lucy crittenden and i'm the director of operations for an organization that arranges volunteering in this part of the country i'm hoping i can persuade one or two of you to become volunteers yourselves let me start by briefly explaining what we mean by volunteering volunteers
are teenagers and adults who choose to spend some time unpaid helping other people in some way most volunteers devote two or three hours to this every week while a few do much more the people they help may have physical or behavioral difficulties for example volunteers can do all sorts of things depending on their own abilities and interests if they're supporting a family that's struggling for example they may be able to give them tips on cooking or recommend how to plan their budget or how to shop sensibly on their income they might even do some painting
or wallpapering perhaps alongside any members of the family who are able to do it or even do some babysitting so the parents can go out for a while the benefit from volunteering isn't only for the people being helped volunteers also gain from it they're using their skills to cope with somebody's mental or physical ill health and volunteering may be a valuable element of their cv when they're applying for jobs employers usually look favorably on someone who's given up time to help others significantly most volunteers feel that what they're doing gives them a purpose in their
lives and in my opinion they're lucky in that respect as many people don't have that feeling before you hear the rest of the talk you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20. [Music] now listen and answer questions 15 to 20. now i'd like to tell you what some of our volunteers have said about what they do to give you an idea of the range of ways in which they can help people habib supports an elderly lady who's beginning to show signs of dementia once a week they along with other elderly people go
to the local community centre where a group of people come in and sing the songs take the listeners back to their youth and for a little while they can forget the difficulties that they face now our volunteer consuela is an amazing woman she has difficulty walking herself but she doesn't let that stop her she helps a couple of people with similar difficulties who had almost stopped walking altogether by using herself as an example consuela encourages them to walk more and more min visits a young man who lives alone and can't leave his home on his
own so he hardly ever saw anyone but together they go out to the cinema or to see friends the young man hadn't been able to visit for a long time tanya visits an elderly woman once a week when the woman found out that tanya is a professional dressmaker she got interested tanya showed her some soft toys she'd made and the woman decided to try it herself and now she really enjoys it and spends hours making toys they're not perhaps up to tanya's standard yet but she gains a lot of pleasure from doing it alexi is
a volunteer with a family that faces a number of difficulties by calmly talking over possible solutions with family members he's helping them to realize that they aren't helpless and that they can do something themselves to improve their situation this has been great for their self-esteem and the last volunteer i'll mention though there are plenty more is juba she volunteers with a teenage girl with learning difficulties who wasn't very good at talking to other people jubas worked very patiently with her and now the girl is far better at expressing herself and at understanding other people okay
i hope that's given you an idea of what volunteering is all about now i'd like to talk to you about that is the end of section two you now have half a minute to check your answers [Music] subscribe to the channel for more videos support us by clicking on the like button and leaving your comments here thank you
