Outside View
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2 Watch the video clip and complete the factfile.
| Age range of volunteers at Raleigh International | |
| Number of people arriving at base camp | |
| Length of stay | |
| Type of project at Curu | |
| Type of project in El Porvenir village | |
| Type of project on Mount Chirripo |
3 Watch the video clip again and choose the best way to complete the sentences.
1. During the ten weeks, the volunteers will ____.
(a) visit several big cities
(b) practise new skills
(c) develop as a person
(d) develop their personalities
2. Before they take part in the projects, the volunteers have training for ____.
(a) the projects they will take part in
(b) the work they will do
(c) the hard work they will do
(d) the conditions they will encounter
3. The artificial reef the volunteers are going to build is made from ____.
(a) different types of bricks
(b) recycled materials
(c) different materials
(d) different types of rocks
4. The community project is to help ____.
(a) one of the most remote areas in the world
(b) one of the poorest areas in the world
(c) a very poor part of the world
(d) a very remote part of the world
5. At the end of the ten weeks, the volunteers are proud that their efforts have helped to improve ____ and the environment of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
(a) the lives of the people
(b) the local economy
(c) their survival skill
(d) the villages
4 Watch the video clip again and complete the sentences.
Every year, millions of young people take time out to help others as volunteers. Many of them do this (1) __________________between finishing school and starting in higher education. Volunteers learn to solve problems, work together as a team and develop their personalities. (2) ______________________ they couldn’t afford to pay for. In Britain, one of the main agencies for voluntary work is Raleigh International. It (3) _____________ thousands of people, aged between 17 and 25, to help out in their own country or abroad. This group of 100 people has just arrived at the base camp in Costa Rica. In the next ten weeks, they are (4) _______________ three different projects. One of the projects is environmental, one community-based and one an adventure project. But first, they have training for the conditions they will encounter. For the environmental project at Curu, the volunteers are going to help to build an artificial reef from recycled materials. This forms a (5) ________________ for the fish to (6) _______________. It helps the local economy of commercial fishing and protects the natural reefs from overfishing and destruction. The community project is in one of the poorest rural areas in the world. In the village of El Porvenir, volunteers are going to make bricks. They’re going to help to (7) _____________ for the important sesame crop. If they have more storage, the villagers will be able to make more money from selling sesame. Volunteers also take part in (8) ____________. Tomorrow, this group is trekking to the summit of Costa Rica’s highest mountain, Mount Chirripo. At the end of the ten weeks, the volunteers are proud that their efforts have helped to improve the lives of the people and the environment of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
