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Hello!
Updated , April 13rd : I am looking for a native English speaker, or someone who lives in an English-speaking country with a C1 proficiency for September or October 2024 for between 1 week and 1 month ). You will have 2 mains tasks :
- helping me to prepare for the Cambridge C1 exam and share conversation in English with me.
- helping in my volunteer work with children ( Azra 9 and Keila, 12 year old) in Rennes on Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Note : Volunteers are responsible for their train fares. I have plenty of games and the children are eager to learn. I would also organize activities such as cooking, reading and plays. I use flash cards to teach vocabulary.
Your main task is to speak to me in English and your mother tongue for 2-3 hours each evening. It's important to me that you take it seriously and you leave your phone in your room during this time. I would love to hear about your country, your culture and various subjects such as the news, your job, your studies, your travels, your life experiences. We can share a game, a song, a movie or a recipe for genuine intercultural exhange. I am not comfortable being the only one talking or asking questions. I would like you to be proactive and talkative, and to teach me expressions and phrases. Hosting native speakers is a precious opportunity for me to progress.
I also ask for simple cleaning tasks : vacuuming (every second day), mopping (once a week) and washing dishes together after the meal. My flat is very easy to clean because everything is almost new.
I live in what we call "habitat participatif" (co-housing). I have my own flat but I am part in a group of neighbours who share things in order to reduce our ecological footprint. We cultivete a garden together. Our hens give us eggs, we enjoy 3 tortoises and guinea pigs. We are renovating an old restaurant in front of our buildings in order to create a flat with a kitchen and guest rooms. We hope to create a common laudry room e perhaps share cars. We compost, have solar panels and some of us have toilet waterless.
My neigbourhood is composed of 23 flats distributed in 3 buildings. There are families with young children as well as old people. Children often play together outside and some of my neighbours regularly garden together on Saturday morning. We sometimes share lunch or pre-dinner drink in front of the garden when the weather is sunny. Some of my neighbours are close friends.
I live alone in a 2-bedrooms flat.My job is with asylum seekers but during my free time, I volunteer with children.My hobbys include board games, hiking, cooking, reading novels, watching movies, travelling and learning foreign languages.
I have both Couchsurfed and hosted couchsurfers some years ago. I have also volunteered through workaway in Scotland, Spain, Poland, Italy, Turkey and Morocco pre covid, and I have taught French to children and adults in families or organizations.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
Creating/ Cooking family meals
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
With me, You will learn about co-housing and ecological lifestyle. You will meet a warm and inclusive group of people who will will teach you how to make compost.
You can discover other associations ecological projects and housing around Dol-de-Bretagne.
We can share board games, movies, walks, discussions, picnics.
You can improve your French. I was a teacher, so I can teach you grammar, vocabulary idioms.
There are many places to discovering the immediat area : the sea, Rennes, the countryside.
Projects involving children
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Help
I need a volunteer to help me to prepare for the C1 Cambridge exam ANDshare household chores.
I would be happy if you correct my pronounciation and I teach me some expressions. I will ask you to teach me synonyms, to to correct texts I write to prefere the C1 examination.
I do not expect you to be a teacher, but it is important you like sharing your culture, that you are proactive, talkative and curious, that you are not afraid of long discussions.
I am eager to discover new cultures, sharing recipes, discussions. I am very curious about understanding other mindsets and cultural differences.
Once a week, you will meet the girls I volunteer with (9 and 12 years old) to play with them in English and talk about your country. The volunteer are responsible of the price of their tickets (about 20 euros).
I would like you to clean up after yourself, wash your dishes after eating, vaccuuming and mopping the living-room every second day once or twice a week, keeping the bathroom tidy. Please cook a meal we can share once during your stay.
Make sure you clean your bedroom before you leave.
Non smokers only.
This gig is for you if :
- you are interested in foreign languages
- you love sharing your language
- you are talkative
- you are looking for an intercultural exhange
- you are concerned about the environment or curious about how to reduce your footprint
- you are interested in co-housing
- you like children
- you don't mind waking up early on Saturday
This is not a suitable gig for you if :
- you are uncomfortable with one to one conversation
- you aren't able to wake up early (7.30 am) some days
- if you don't turn off the light when you leave a room
- you like partying at night
- you smoke
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
German: Beginner
Hebrew: Beginner
Italian: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
This is the main task.
Accommodation
a private bedroom (10 meters square) with a comfy bed and a wardrobe.
Bathroom and kitchen are shared.
What else ...
Dol-de-Bretagne is a small town but has most things you will need: food shops, a swimming pool, a library, a cinema, all less than 10 min walk from my flat. Th train station is i 10 minutes on foot. You can easily reach the sea by train (Saint Malo). We are near Le Mont St Michel, Cancale and Dinan. The train journey takes 35 min and from Rennes, there are buses to different towns in Brittany. If you have a car, they are plenty of walks and hikes around, along Canal de la Rance, along the coast, and nearby forests.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
4 hours a day, 5 days a week
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It was interesting to find out about the neighbourhood project with its allotment/garden and restoration project. I met several of Héloïse’s neighbours and are particularly… read more
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It was interesting to find out about the neighbourhood project with its allotment/garden and restoration project. I met several of Héloïse’s neighbours and are particularly… read more
I could help her with the girls she takes care of and I can say that she puts a lot of effort to teach them English… read more
I helped her with Spanish conversation in the evenings after we both finished work. She has a comfortable home and is lucky to have lovely neighbors she gets along and spends time with. It was great to feel that sense of community and very heartwarming to see the care… read more
L'appartement était joli et propre, elle m'a laissé une chambre individuelle parfaite. Héloïse est… read more
Habia preparado muchos ejercicios. Hice muchos repassos de gramatica. Ademas Clara ayudo un poco en casa, lavando los platos y no deje platos o comida en la encimera o en la mesa. Hablar con Clara estaba muy interessante. He aprendido mucho… read more
during a part of her stay, so it wasn't as easy as usual. I… read more
