Vocabulary Exercise

Community Service Essay

Can you fill in the gaps of these expressions from the essay with the correct
word?

1. … an optional element of their students’ ________ .

2. … such work prepares them for the ________ outside of education.

3. … students who have no awareness of what the working world is like may
be ________ when it finally comes around …

4. … will be more able to ________ to the needs of elderly customers …

5. Nevertheless, it is vital that this service be the ________ choice of of the

student …

6. … as making such tasks compulsory may breed ________ towards the

work.

7. … people are often naturally ________ to doing anything which seems

imposed upon them …

8. … if the student decides to do community work for no pay, this is more

likely to lead to feelings of ________-________ and satisfaction …

9. … may help them to ________ into the adult world, …

10. … should not be a necessary component of their programmes as this may

________ negativity.

ANSWERS ON THE NEXT PAGE

1. curriculums

2. world

3. overwhelmed

4. adapt

5. sole

6. resentment

7. averse

8. self-worth

9. transition

10. foster