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Here you might find resources to help you navigate the muddy waters of English. The humble aim of this blog is just to keep you in touch with different types of English and different aspects of the English culture , to increase your curiosity about English through many different fields.

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miércoles, 10 de octubre de 2012

CHARITY


A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization. It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philantropic goals (e.g. charitable, educational, religiuos etc).

Have you ever worked or been involved in a NGO? What are the reasons to participate in one of them? In these type of organizations you give and offer help to others, but do you get something from them? Are there any advantages / disadvantages in cooperating with them?
Here you have some logos of some registered charities that may help you in your project. You can design your own as well. By the way, do you recognize the logos and what do these organizations do?
In your project you have to create your own charity event. Remember to include the following information:
-  Description of the event (where it will take place, people involved,which part of your own community is going to be helped, etc). Give as many details as possible.
-  How are you going to manage to get cooperators? Publicity ideas.
-  Raising money. ( Donations, tips, who is going to sponsor you, etc)

Listen to John talking about two different types of charity and answer the following questions.
1. How does John and his group raise money to help people in need? listen and summarize.
2. John talks about a famous British charity associatoin. What do they do? summarize what he says and write about what kind of people they help and how.


HOMELESSNESS is  a serious problem. Is there any way to avoid it? Have a look at this activity and do the following tasks:
1. Vocabulary exercise. Place each word in the right category and then analyze how we can connect some of these words to the idea of homelessness.
2. Listen to the suggested song and do the adjoined activities


Watch the following videos . What´s your opinion about them?
1. What has the woman done in the 1st video?
2. Oxfam ´s slogan in the second video is " putting and end to bad presents" . Why do they say that?



3 comentarios:

Unknown dijo...
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Unknown dijo...

Interesting idea! I may "steal" it, with your permission ;) xx

BE dijo...

of course!!! glad to share ideas.
CU soon!