LSH 2903 –
Community Service Learning – Exercise #3 - ALL Due 28 April!
Week 4
Looking at volunteering in different
spheres of society.
During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games
were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held
the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the
importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.
Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the
volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at
the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a
volunteer.
Follow this link:
Listen again and see if you can work out
the answers to these questions about the interview:
1.
How old were the Games
volunteers? ______________________________________________
2.
During the Games, the
volunteers had a special title. What was this special title?
______________________________________________
3.
Complete this quote from David…
“… for a moment in time volunteering had a
_________________________________________ and an
_________________________________________ that they fully
_________________________________________ but don’t always get.”
4.
David mentions that some of the
volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean?
______________________________________________
5.
Zoe worked in Events Services.
Where was this located? ______________________________________________
6.
How does she describe the
experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics?
______________________________________________
7.
What benefits of volunteering,
according to Zoe?
a.
______________________________________________
b.
______________________________________________
c.
______________________________________________
d.
______________________________________________
8.
Why does David feel that
volunteering in the community is so important?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
LSH 2903 –
Community Service Learning – Exercise #4
This page is also from AGE UK.
What volunteer roles do the following
people have?
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Name
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Job
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1
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John McArthur
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2
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Samarah Hashmi
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3
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Oliver Stannard
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4
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Stanley Parker
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5
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Camilla
Williamson
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Look again at these people and their jobs.
What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
– Exercise #5
This page has some ideas about how people
can volunteer through education projects.
Once you have read through the pages, you
need to work in groups of 4 or 5.
In your groups, come up with a project
which you think can be advanced through an educational setting. There are no
restrictions, but your idea should be innovative and should aim at adding real
value to the people you are trying to help.
As you are working through your project,
one of you should be putting together a short presentation (Powerpoint, etc) to
explain to the rest of the group what you are trying to achieve.
You should aim to cover the following
points, at least.
1.
What are the aims/ goals & benefits
of the project
2.
Who are the target audience,
and why?
3.
What activities would your
project involve?
4.
Who would be volunteering? Why?
5.
What are the benefits your
project could bring to the target audience?
6.
How would you look into
launching your project with reference to the relevant authorities in the UAE
and in the country you have targeted?
7.
What problems do you think you
might come across and how would you try to get around them?
You should aim at one or two of your group
making a 4-6 minute presentation to the rest of the group explaining your
findings.
Another student brought up the problems of workers’ rights
in Doha. Many students were very worried about it as they said maybe the World
Cup might not take place there now because all the media was talking about
Human Rights of workers.