CAE READINGS
CAE READING PART 2 Which writer takes a similar view to writer A on the likely impact of voluntary work on local people’s lives? _______ expresses a different view from the others on why people do international voluntary work? _______ has the same opinion as writer A about the possible long-term effects on the volunteers? ________ shares writer C’s concern about who the volunteers tend to be? _________ Volunteer tourism Four academic writers discuss the topic of international voluntary work. A It is hard to argue that the actual contribution to development amounts to a great deal directly. Whilst volunteer tourists can get involved in building homes or schools, they have usually paid a significant fee for the opportunity to be involved in this work: money that, if donated to a local community directly, could potentially pay for a greater amount of labour than the individual volunteer could ever hope to provide. This is especially so in the case of gap years, in which the level of...