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Vocabulary : listen and repeat
Verbs

1. To recommend volunteering :
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2. To strongly reccommend volunteering :
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3. To join a program with a charity :
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4. To volunteer for a Non Governemental Organisation :
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5. To provide education to children :
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6. To get a taste of a different culture :
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7. To make the world a better place :
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8. to meet people :
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9. To work as a volunteer abroad :

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Adectives to describe volunteering experience :

1.Amazing 2.enriching 3. different 4.great

5.A moving and unique experience

6. an unforgettable experience

7.a lifetime experience

Working as a volunteer: a testimony

Part 1:

Aline Sternberg is 24 years old. She (studies )social sciences .She (lives in ) Belgium. She (joined a program with) « Volunteers Without Borders » in India (to provide) education to children from slum areas.

Part 2:

Aline strongly (recommends) people( to volunteer) abroad or internationally because it’s an amazing and (moving ) experience and because you can (meet) great people, you can (get a taste of) a different culture and above all (make )the world (a better place).

Hey, How's it going.
See you later.
I'd like a small coffee to go.

Standing and waiting for the race to begin

I’m getting quite nervous.

Am I going to win ?

Crouching down low, I wait for the gun

Bang.

There it goes.

We’re starting to run.

My heart is pounding ; I’m going to burst

Come on legs keep going,

I want to come first.

Just one last effort, I pass the line.

Am I first, last, where am I ?

What’s my time?

I stand on the podium,

proud and bold.

I’m wearing my medal.

An Olympic Gold !

The online retail giant Amazon will start selling its cashier-less technology to any store or retail outlet that wants it. The software is called "Just Walk Out". The software means stores do not need any cashiers. Shoppers simply scan a smartphone app when they arrive at a store and then put their shopping in their bag and... just walk out of the store. The software automatically calculates the cost of the customer's shopping and charges the cost of their shopping to the customer's Amazon account. The new software will allow customers to have their credit card or other payment card deducted instead. Amazon has been using the software for the past two years in its own Go Grocery stores. The Just Walk Out software will reduce the amount of employees a store needs. Instead, the store will need to put hundreds of small cameras on the ceiling. The cameras link to software that detects what customers have put into their bag. The software then bills the customer and issues a receipt online. An industry expert expects Amazon to make a lot of money from selling the software to other stores. Many stores want to remove one of the biggest things customers complain about - slow checkouts. Amazon said the software will allow store staff, "to focus on more valuable activities". However, a retail expert worries that, "there will be fewer jobs as automation comes in".

How much money do you have?
How old are you?
Where do you plan to live in America? (city and state)
What was your last permanent place of residence? (city and country)
Are you married or single?
Can you read and write?
Where are you from?
Have you ever been in prison?
Do you have family in America?
What is your number on the immigration list?
What is your job?
Do you have a ticket to your final destination?
What is your skin color?
Have you ever been to America before?
Where were you born?
Do you have a job in America? What will you do? Where will you work?
How tall are you?
What is your full name?
What color are your eyes and hair?

QUESTION 1.It uses a variety of diets to improve health and treat certain health conditions. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: DIET THERAPY.
QUESTION 2.It consists of various postures and breathing exercises which help in improving flexibility and promote relaxation. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: YOGA.
QUESTION 3.It’s a mind and body practice which puts a person in an altered state of consciousness to facilitate behavioural or emotional changes in the person. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: HYPNOSIS.
QUESTION 4.It is the traditional Hindu system of medicine practiced in India for more than 5,000 years. Practitioners use a whole lot of techniques like herbal remedies, diet therapy, massage therapy, breathing exercises and meditation to restore the imbalance in the body’s system which are responsible for illness and maintain a healthy prana or life energy.What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: Ayurvedic medicine.
QUESTION 5.It’s a healing method which uses aromatic plant extracts and essential oils, for example lavender or pepper. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: aromatherapy
QUESTION 6.Therapists manipulate a person's muscles andother soft tissues by rubbing and kneading muscles and joints in the body to promote health and wellness.What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: MASSAGE.
QUESTION 7.It’s a mind body practice used to relieve stress and promote relaxation. It involves clearing the mind of all thoughts. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: MEDITATION.
QUESTION 8.It’s an Energy Healing Therapy used to restore physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance.What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: REIKI.
QUESTION 9. It involves the insertion of very fine and thin needles into the skin at specific points along a person's body. These needles are then manipulated by hand or by electrical stimulation to remove the blocked energy flow and re-achieving the person's balance.What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: ACUPUNCTURE.
QUESTION 10. A substance that causes disease symptoms in an average person may, iF diluted and administered to a person who is ill, promote the same set of symptoms and initiate a healing response. What is it? stop the audio now. Answer: HOMEOPATHY.

Three Swedish switched witches watch three Swiss Swatch watch switches. Which Swedish switched witch watch which Swiss Swatch watch switch?

Hi John !

Let me tell you about my trip to London with my parents !

It was fantastic ! I had a wonderful time ! We visited a lot of museums : the British Museum was really interesting, I loved the Egyptian gallery ! Mme Tussaud’s Wax Museum was great fun with all the statues of famous people and I learned many things in the Science Museum !

I didn’t see the Changing of the Guards. Instead, I saw foot guards and I tried to make them laugh but they were so serious, I didn’t succeed. I also saw The Palace of Westminster where the Houses of Parliament are and visited Westminster Abbey and, hum… oh, yes ! … then I went shopping on Oxford Street. I bought a lot of new clothes !

We went for walk in Hyde Park and I gave food to the squirrels, they were very cute !

We stayed in a very nice hotel near Picadilly Circus and at the end of the trip, I went to a pub with my parents and we ate a delicious meal of fish and chips ! My parents drank beer and I drank coke.

I bought a little souvenir for you, I can’t wait to give it to you !!

Table manners

Kim Kardashian is eating breakfast with her parents. They are eating doner kebab. Dad scolds Kim because she is eating so fast and burping. “You eat like an animal!”, he scolds. Kim wants to go to her room but her mother says, “Finish your doner kebab!”

Later, Kim Kardashian and her parents are eating lunch. They are eating chebureks. Dad scolds Kim because she is eating so fast and spitting. “You eat like an animal!”, he scolds. Kim wants to go to her room but her mother says, “Finish your lunch!”

Later, Kim Kardashian and her parents are eating dinner. They are eating borscht. This time Dad is eating like an animal. He is eating too fast and slurping. Kim scolds her dad, “You eat like an animal! “Kim,” says her dad, “I am an animal”.

It’s true. Dad is 100% pig. This is new to Mom, but she has no problem with it, because she is an animal too. She is 50% dolphin and 50% pigeon. So Kim is 50% pig, 25% dolphin and 25% pigeon. Everyone in the family is an animal! No wonder they all eat like animals! From that day on, they always eat like animals. And no one scolds.