Reading Part 5 - Gap Year
Reading Part 5 - Gap Year
Reading Part 5 - Gap Year
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PART 5
Questions 1–5
• The young people below are all students who would like to take a break from full-time study by doing a Gap Year
Challenge.
• On the opposite page there are descriptions of eight Gap Year Challenges.
• Decide which challenge (letters A–H) would be the most suitable for each of the following people (numbers 1–5).
If you are a student between 18 and 25 and you would like to take a break from full-time study, why not try a Gap Year Challenge? You could
be a volunteer on a project to help people in a poor country; you could work and earn money to travel; you could even take another course of
study in a different country. Whatever you choose, it’s bound to be exciting, challenging and different! And you’ll come back to your studies
afterwards with new skills, new knowledge and greater self-confidence.
NOTE: It’s called a Gap Year, but you can find jobs or projects which last for six months or less.
1 Jez is planning to train as a secondary school teacher. Now he wants to do voluntary work overseas, preferably with
young people. He would like to learn another language, too. He has saved some money and can pay at least some of
the costs of his gap year challenge.
2 Diane hopes to train as a nurse next year. She has experience of running a playgroup for pre-school children. She is
keen to learn about other cultures and she would like to do voluntary work with children.
3 Anita is very good at sport and wants to spend her gap year working outdoors, perhaps on a farm or as a group
leader of adventure activities for young people. She would prefer to be in an English-speaking country, and she would
like to earn a little bit of money, too, if possible.
4 Rohan is studying History of Art in London. He wants to get away from England for six months and work to earn a little
money. After that he would like to go travelling, somewhere warm and sunny. He has had some work experience helping
in his uncle’s café.
Reading Part 5