B1 – Intermediate
Imagine traveling to a foreign country and helping people in need. How about doing both at the same time? There’s a new trend in the travel industry and it is called “voluntourism”.
Click on the link below and find out more about “voluntourism”.
https://www.english-online.at/news-articles/travel/voluntourism-new-trend-in-travel.htm
Discussion Questions:
1. Have you ever done voluntourism? If yes, talk about your experience. If not, Would you be interested to do it? Why/why not?
2. Where would you like to travel and do volunteer works? Why?
3. What do you think are the benefits one can get from this experience?
6 replies on “Voluntourism: Volunteering and Tourism”
1. Have you ever done voluntourism? If yes, talk about your experience. If not, Would you be interested to do it? Why/why not?
I haven’t never done voluntourism in my country or in others.
2. Where would you like to travel and do volunteer works? Why?
I feel curiosity for doing voluntourism so I am sure that I will find a moment to do that.
3. What do you think are the benefits one can get from this experience?
I think so. These experiences make us better value what we have, which is not little.
Well done always writing your responses to your lesson’s discussion questions. Remember to be as elaborate as you can so you may be able to express your thoughts more clearly.
For example, in your answer “I haven’t never done voluntourism in my country or in others.”, you can explain why you have not tried doing voluntourism.
In relation, here is a minor correction in that sentence:
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1. Have you ever done voluntourism? If yes, talk about your experience. If not, Would you be interested to do it? Why/why not?
No, I have never volunteered. Maybe in the future when I’m retired, but helping out in my society.
2. Where would you like to travel and do volunteer works? Why?
Only if the work / collaboration that I do is related to my real work, it does not make sense to develop a job where I cannot contribute knowledge
3. What do you think are the benefits one can get from this experience?
Get to know other societies, cultural differences and become aware that reality in the world is different from our perception.
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This sentence can still be improved a bit. Take a look at how:
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1.I haven’t done it yet but once I thought about doing it with a foundation that built houses in rural areas in Venezuela
2. Volunteering always makes you feel very good and if you can help another and also get to know new cultures, it seems perfect to me
3. As I said before, get to know a culture from a different perspective and without falling into mass tourism because you can get to know different things that do not appear in the tourist guides.
Good job answering this lesson’s discussion questions. Keep going with your writing practice.
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