VOLUNTARY WORK VOLUNTARY WORK Your class has watched a panel discusson on the benefits of young people doing voluntary work. You have made the notes below. Benefits of young people doing voluntary work: • Contribute to society • Learn about others • Gain skills Some opinions expressed in the discussion: It´s good for them to help others It can be open their eyes to the problems some people face. Thay learn how to do useful things. Write an essay discussing two of the benefits in your notes. You should indentify which benefit is more important, gaving reason for your choice. (220-240 words) As it is well known, the volutary work realise a benefit not only to our society, also to the volunteers, specially the young people, who obtein a positive experience and improve their self-knowledge. In this essay, I will examine two of the main beneficts of doing volutary work. Firstly, the young people learn about the others. When they have to work with ill people, children without a family, inmigrants, or people without resources, they develop their patience and become in more generousus and intuitive persons. Furthermore, if the teenagers cowork with people with strong necessities they will understand the value of their lifes and probably will become in more thankful people thanks to act of sharing vital experiences. Moreover, they would raise her hands to the others and will have an open mind. Secondly, the survays show that in these kind of jobs, the young people always gain useful skills for their future. For instance, they can learn to cook in social dinning rooms or about first aids while they were collaborating in hospital. Others would improve their teaching abilities playing with orphans or even they could do the houseworks of the old or ill people who is living alone. In other words, they may develop basic habilities that every young should have. To sum up, how I have explained before, the voluntary work offers many oppotunities to the young people. With this altruistic work they will be helping to their community and improving their skills.

LETTER TO YOUR FRIEND “WE´RE DOING A PROJECT AT COLLEGE ABOUT USING WEBSITES RATHER THAN BOOKS FOR STUDY PURPOSES. HOW MUCH DO STUDENTS USE WEBSITES IN YOUR COUNTRY? WHAT´S YOUR FAVOURITE STUDY SITE AND WHAT DO YOU USE IT FOR? DO YOU THINK STUDENTS WILL EVENTUALLY STOP USING TRADITIONAL LIBRARIES?” WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR FRIEND REPLYING TO THEIR QUESTIONS. Hi Alan! I haven´t listened from you in years! In your last letter you have told me about your college Project and you made me some questions. Although I am not a professional in this subject, I am going to do my best answering you. Firsty you want to know how much the websites are used here in The United States. Well, I find that every day more and more students are using the online resources in the academic area, so I could say that around the 90% of the students are used to enjoy of the websites to provide themselves with information. Sencondly, respect to which page I usually consult, I think that Wikipedia is one of the most well-knowledge page and one of my favourites. Here I can find almost everything from differents subject. However, I have found some mistakes when I was looking for information because some articles are written by inexpert people so you should be carefoul. This web is a good option if you are interestes in a general point of view. Finally, I believe the libraries keep very valious books, which Internet will never be able to remplace. In the low grades, the students will can use the online webs to do their homeworks, but I honestly think that the universitaries will go the libraries to amplify the information or make researchs. I hope this information could be helpful for you. Let me know it in your next letter, Kisses Sara

Why not to live in Spain Why Spain is not a good place to live

I am Spanish and I have been living in these country all my whole live. If your a waiting for a formal writing, you are wrong because i only want to share my feelings and in some case, advice you, if your meditating about came to this country.

Well, this is not a place for you if you a polite a good worker. In my case, i have a bachelor degree in Spanish and a master in Edition and I do not have a jod job, i am only a secretary. Here, your knowledge is not important. The really valuable is your contacts and friends. To get a job, you will need friends or be the relative of someone and if you have the opportunity of find a well paid employee, believe, you will need to have poweful relationship in your position. The spanish employees spend their time goofing and chattering about gossip, even sometimes the made up if they do not have nothing about to speak.

So believe, here your achieves are the less important. This is not America (USA) the country of the opportunities, dear.

If you have had other experiences, please, share.

Finally, i have a blog, theyellowlabyrinth.wordpress.com

if you would like to practise Spanish and you apreciate the culture, you will love it!

Regards!