Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

VSO is a registered charity dedicated to assisting in developing countries. It is a recruitment agency which finds, selects and places volunteers in response to overseas requests.

This work makes it distinctive among other charities and organizations in the UK. It sends people, not money, so it tries to respond to requests from overseas which ask for volunteers. Its purpose is toward the poorest members of the community. Both staff and volunteers also pay special attention to women’s roles in development projects. This is because women’s roles in child–rearing, in education and community relationship are essential in any healthy process of change.

Over the past 38 years, more than 21.000 volunteers have worked abroad with VSO. There are now over 1,900 volunteers working in 59 of the less developed countries in Africa Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.

The application of each volunteer is carefully considered in order to select and interview candidates against each job request from the field, to look for the person with the right blend of skills and personality.

VSO volunteers do not go to developing countries as visiting experts with all the answers. It is always a process of sharing and learning. The aim is that when the volunteer returns home, there exists a community with a stronger sense of independence, and a volunteer with a new understanding of life and people everywhere. The range of jobs required of VSO is wide, reflecting the needs of any society in the modern world.

The volunteer chosen to go out to a developing country____.

A. must have experience of working overseas

B. will quickly become an expert in the field

C. will gain more knowledge about the world we live in

D. must leave the country before it becomes independent

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

VSO is a registered charity dedicated to assisting in developing countries. It is a recruitment agency which finds, selects and places volunteers in response to overseas requests.

This work makes it distinctive among other charities and organizations in the UK. It sends people, not money, so it tries to respond to requests from overseas which ask for volunteers. Its purpose is toward the poorest members of the community. Both staff and volunteers also pay special attention to women’s roles in development projects. This is because women’s roles in child–rearing, in education and community relationship are essential in any healthy process of change.

Over the past 38 years, more than 21.000 volunteers have worked abroad with VSO. There are now over 1,900 volunteers working in 59 of the less developed countries in Africa Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.

The application of each volunteer is carefully considered in order to select and interview candidates against each job request from the field, to look for the person with the right blend of skills and personality.

VSO volunteers do not go to developing countries as visiting experts with all the answers. It is always a process of sharing and learning. The aim is that when the volunteer returns home, there exists a community with a stronger sense of independence, and a volunteer with a new understanding of life and people everywhere. The range of jobs required of VSO is wide, reflecting the needs of any society in the modern world.

 VSO is different from other charities and oranizations in the UK bacause it____

A. is a registered body

B. sends financial aid to developing countries

C. sends volunteers to help abroad

D. recruits volunteer to work in Britain

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

VSO is a registered charity dedicated to assisting in developing countries. It is a recruitment agency which finds, selects and places volunteers in response to overseas requests.

This work makes it distinctive among other charities and organizations in the UK. It sends people, not money, so it tries to respond to requests from overseas which ask for volunteers. Its purpose is toward the poorest members of the community. Both staff and volunteers also pay special attention to women’s roles in development projects. This is because women’s roles in child–rearing, in education and community relationship are essential in any healthy process of change.

Over the past 38 years, more than 21.000 volunteers have worked abroad with VSO. There are now over 1,900 volunteers working in 59 of the less developed countries in Africa Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.

The application of each volunteer is carefully considered in order to select and interview candidates against each job request from the field, to look for the person with the right blend of skills and personality.

VSO volunteers do not go to developing countries as visiting experts with all the answers. It is always a process of sharing and learning. The aim is that when the volunteer returns home, there exists a community with a stronger sense of independence, and a volunteer with a new understanding of life and people everywhere. The range of jobs required of VSO is wide, reflecting the needs of any society in the modern world.

According to those who for VSO, who plays the most important part in bringing about change?

A. charitable organizations

B. volunteers from abroad

C. women in local communities

D. staff who recruit volunteers

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)

VSO is a registered charity dedicated to assisting in developing countries. It is a recruitment agency which finds, selects and places volunteers in response to overseas requests.

This work makes it distinctive among other charities and organizations in the UK. It sends people, not money, so it tries to respond to requests from overseas which ask for volunteers. Its purpose is toward the poorest members of the community. Both staff and volunteers also pay special attention to women’s roles in development projects. This is because women’s roles in child–rearing, in education and community relationship are essential in any healthy process of change.

Over the past 38 years, more than 21.000 volunteers have worked abroad with VSO. There are now over 1,900 volunteers working in 59 of the less developed countries in Africa Asia, the Pacific and the Caribbean.

The application of each volunteer is carefully considered in order to select and interview candidates against each job request from the field, to look for the person with the right blend of skills and personality.

VSO volunteers do not go to developing countries as visiting experts with all the answers. It is always a process of sharing and learning. The aim is that when the volunteer returns home, there exists a community with a stronger sense of independence, and a volunteer with a new understanding of life and people everywhere. The range of jobs required of VSO is wide, reflecting the needs of any society in the modern world.

Requests from overseas most likely to be dealt with are those which___

A. specially ask for female staff and volunteers

B. require volunteers to work with the local inhabitants

C. require help and advice on health care

D. need help to train less wealthy members of the community

B. READING (2,5ms)

Thinking of volunteering?

According to the recent survey, 40% of young people aged 16 to 25, who live in Britain, have done voluntary work. Young people often volunteer in places where they work with younger children such as on holiday camps. Wanting to meet other people and experience new things are the main reasons that they give for volunteering. However, they also say they want to help whose lives are more difficult than their own, More and more young people are volunteering abroad too. They often go to the countries where there have been disasters.

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) which is an international development charity, always needs volunteers. The organization allows people, who are aged between 17 to 70, to share their skills and experiences.

1. Have British teenagers done voluntary work……………………………………………

2. Where young people often volunteer ?…………………………………………………………

3. what is Voluntary service overseas (VSO) ?…………………………………………………

* Complete the sentences with a word or a short phrases

1. …………. per cent of young people aged 16 to 25, who live in Britain, have done voluntary work.

2. Young people volunteer because they ……………to meet other people and experience new things.

3. They also often go to the countries where there have been ……………………..

4. Voluntary service overseas allows people, who are aged between 17 to 70, to share their …………

Each year volunteers from England work abroad: teachers, nures, engineers, and people with special skills. They do not go for money. Volunteers from Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) receive the __________ pays as a local colleague.

VSO first ____________ in 1958 when 14 young school leavers went away for a year. Only 3 years later there were 176 volunteers in 25 different countries, and 10 years later there were 15000 volnteers. At first, almost everyone ___________ young, and without very much experience. But in the late 1960s, VSO reduced the number of young pople, and more and more older, experienced people with diferent skills went abroad.

Now more than 20000 people from England have worked aboard as volunteers, some are young, ___________ are old. Aboard they live simply with the local people, and they return ____________ England with great understanding of other people in other past of the world

Each year volunteers from England work abroad: teachers, nurses, engineers, and people with
special skills. They do not go for money. Volunteers from Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
receive the (1)________ pay as a local colleague.
VSO first (2)________ in 1958 when 14 young school leavers went away for a year. Only three
years later there were 176 volunteers in 25 different countries, and ten years later there were 15,000
volunteers. At first, almost everyone (3)________ young, and without very much experience. But in
the late 1960s, VSO reduced the number of young people, and more and more older, experienced
people with different skills went abroad.
Now more than 20,000 people from England have worked abroad as volunteers, some are young,
(4)________ are old. Abroad they live simply with the local people, and they return (5)________
England with great understanding of other people in other parts of the world.
1. A. same B. similar C. average D. like
2. A. starts B. was starting C. started D. has started
3. A. were B. is C. are D. was
4. A. another B. the other C. other D. others
5. A. at B. in C. for D. to
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B. READING (2,5ms)

Thinking of volunteering?

According to the recent survey, 40% of young people aged 16 to 25, who live in Britain, have done voluntary work. Young people often volunteer in places where they work with younger children such as on holiday camps. Wanting to meet other people and experience new things are the main reasons that they give for volunteering. However, they also say they want to help whose lives are more difficult than their own, More and more young people are volunteering abroad too. They often go to the countries where there have been disasters.

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) which is an international development charity, always needs volunteers. The organization allows people, who are aged between 17 to 70, to share their skills and experiences.

1. Have British teenagers done voluntary work……………………………………………

2. Where young people often volunteer ?…………………………………………………………

3. what is Voluntary service overseas (VSO) ?…………………………………………………

* Complete the sentences with a word or a short phrases

1. …………. per cent of young people aged 16 to 25, who live in Britain, have done voluntary work.

2. Young people volunteer because they ……………to meet other people and experience new things.

3. They also often go to the countries where there have been ……………………..

4. Voluntary service overseas allows people, who are aged between 17 to 70, to share their …………

C. WRITING. (2,5m)

I. Give the correct form of the words provided. (1m)

1. Many people do volunteer work because it can make a……………… in their community. (Differ)

2. Some students usually teach street ………………… English in the summer. ( Child)

3. Water .................................. began in the 11^th century. ( puppet)

4. My father’s friend is a great .................................. ( paint)

II. Complete each sentence so it means the same as the sentence above.(1,5ms)

1. I didn't go to school because I was sick.

-> I was sick, so ................................................................................................................

2. His hobby is playing computer games in his free time.

-> He likes .....................................................................................................................

3. They built Tan Ky House in Hoi An two century ago.

=> Tan Ky House in Hoi An ……………………………………………………………………….

Read the following passage and choose A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the following blanks. Fill in the appropriate word in question 35

Voluntary work is work that you do not get paid for and usually involves doing things to help other people, especially the elderly or the sick or working on (31)______ of a charity or similar organization. Most charitable organizations rely on unpaid volunteers, and thousands of Americans and British people give many hours of their time to doing some form of social work or organizing fund- raising events to support the work. Volunteering is especially popular in the US and the reasons this may be found in (32)______ American values such as the Protestant work ethic, the idea that work improves the person who does it, and the belief that people can change their condition if they try hard enough.

In the US young people over 18 can take part in AmeriCorps, a government program that (33)______ them to work as volunteers for a period of time, with the promise of help in paying for their education later. Older Americans who do not work may spend much of their free time volunteering.

In Britain a lot of voluntary work is directed towards supporting the country’s social services. The WRVS and other organizations run a meals on wheels service in many parts of Britain, provide hot meals for old people who are (34)______ to cook for themselves. The nationwide Citizens Advice Bureau, which offers free advice to the public on a wide range of issues, is run mainly by volunteers, and the Blood Transfusion Service relies on voluntary blood donors to give blood for use in hospitals. Political parties use volunteers at election time, and Churches depend on volunteers to (35) _______ building clean.

A. stay

B. keep

C. help

D. get