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The document discusses volunteerism and the benefits it provides. It gives examples of large companies that allow employees to volunteer, such as Timberland which provides up to 40 paid hours per year for community projects. This benefits the community and employees who gain new skills. The document also discusses a volunteer project managed by Samira Khan to redecorate a community center. She is learning new skills in organizing a schedule, dealing with a limited budget, and getting updates from her team.

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Collocations Assignment

The document discusses volunteerism and the benefits it provides. It gives examples of large companies that allow employees to volunteer, such as Timberland which provides up to 40 paid hours per year for community projects. This benefits the community and employees who gain new skills. The document also discusses a volunteer project managed by Samira Khan to redecorate a community center. She is learning new skills in organizing a schedule, dealing with a limited budget, and getting updates from her team.

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Working with words.

1. Read this article and answer questions 1-4


1. What is volunteerism?
2. What sorts of thing can employee volunteers do?
3. Who benefits from volunteering and how?
4. Whas has Samira Khan Learnt from her project?

A Commitment to volunteerism
What does volunteerism mean?
The clothing manufacturer, Timberland, is one of many large companies that
are committed to volunteerism, The company encourages staff to spend up to
40 paid hours a year on community and social projects. The community benefits
from the companys resources, staff gain new skills and teamwork improves.
The French food manufacturer, Danone, allows its employees to spend time in
developing countries, working on projects in areas like conservation, teaching,
caring, or building. In doing so, they can share their own skills and at the same
time, they gain new ideas and insights, and learn from the experiences of
others.
A team from the banking group, HBOS, volunteered to help build an extension
to a school in La Esperanza in Honduras. Linda Marshall, the Project leader,
said, I learnt that when new team are forming, it is essential that objectives are
agreed and everyone buys into them. This is a crucial factor to any projects
success.
What can volunteering do for you?
Software engineer, Samira Khan, is in charge of a volunteer Project to
redecorate a community center for the elderly in Chicago. Managing a Project is
a new experience for her. She is learning how to organize a Schedule so that
they are able to complete the Project before its deadline. She also has to deal
with the budget, which is fairly limited, so she has to spend carefully. And every
few days, she gets updates from her Project team to check on progress and
decide if they need more resources. She find working on this Project very
rewarding and is pleased to be learning new skills.

2. Label these items with the words in bold from the text in 1.

It was agreed that Jonas will

Look at ways of cutting


spending
Talk to the bank about a
loan
Aim to balance the
books in 6 months.

Venue:
2,000
Catering:
4,000
Transport:
350
___________________
Total:
6,350

Sunhills community project

June

Completed:
wiring
and
plumbing
Ongoing: plastering and tiling.
Still to do: decorating and
furnishing.

5 June: compete decorating


6 June: safety checks
10 June: Official opening

Accomplished
in
bookkeeping.
Knows how to operate a
variety
of
computer
software.
Speaks
English
and
Spanish.

3. Samira is telling someone about the volunteer project that she is


working on. Listen to these extracts from the conversation and answer
questions 1-2.
1. Which items in 2 does she talk about?
2. What does she say about each one?
4. Listen again and complete the phrases that Samira uses un column A.
Then work with a partner. Take turns to cover column A while your partner
tests you using the definitions in column B.
Example:
A. How can you say finish on time?
B. Meet the deadline?
A. Yes.

A
1. ______________ the deadline
2. fall ___________ schedule
3. catch_________________
4. be back______________ track
5. finish _____________ schedule
6. _______________ resources
7. stay __________ budget
8. _______________ tasks
9. get__________ a task
10. __________________ updates

B
= finish on time
= make slow progress
= get back to the original schedule
= work to the predicted schedule
= finish before the planned schedule
= make use of people, money, time
= spend the right amount of money
= give people different responsabilities
= do a job
= receive reports on progress

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