Thank you for your interest in volunteering your services with the city of Adelaide. Volunteers play a vital role in the services across the city. Search the categories below and see our current vacancies. If you're interested, please click here to apply.
Please note:
All volunteers will need to commit to a minimum commitment of half a year and agree to a National Police Check.
Adelaide City Guide(ACG)
Provide a face-to-face tourism & community information service to the public, and tourists to Adelaide. Assist visitors to the city with general tourist information, directions to attractions, and public transport in the city. This role would suit someone who enjoys meeting new people from different backgrounds and has excellent knowledge of Adelaide's local tourist attractions, venues, public transport and community services.
Justice of the Peace(JP)
Adelaide City Libraries run a busy volunteer JP program that provides a valuable free service to the community. If you have a current JP certification, excellent customer service skills and are able to work as part of a team, please apply. Experience will be taken into account.
Baseball Program Assistant(BPA)
This is a weekly baseball program advertised through Meet Up and requires an assistant to work with another helper. If you enjoy baseball or are willing to learn and get involved in overseeing this community program, please get in contact.
Need more information:
If you have any questions about the volunteering, please contact the coordinator:8203 7203 or send an email to Adelaide123@hotmail. com.
Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, and Johnny Depp are all successful movie stars. But remarkably, they have all described themselves as shy. Movie stars have to perform in front of many people, so it seems strange for famous actors to be shy. But, "The fact is, " says Roger Moore, "most actors are shy people. " Could there be a connection between acting and being shy?
Shy people frequently like to pretend to be someone else. This, of course, is the same thing actors do at their work. Acting coach John Harmon says, "The best actors are usually shy children. They play alone and pretend to be kings, queens, and their favorite animals. Over time, they learn to act in this way. " Shy people and actors may feel more comfortable in an imaginary world. As Nicole Kidman once said, "As a teenager, I was like, I hate who I am. I hate how I feel. 'Theater was a place where I could go and just be somebody else. " Kidman feels much better about herself and her acting ability now. But she still finds herself feeling shy. "I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself, " she explains. And as strange as it seems, Kidman is not alone.
Many actors worry more about everyday conversation than performing. "I find it hard to talk to people, " says Daniel Radcliffe. Like many shy people, Radcliffe sometimes worries about what to say during a conversation. When acting, of course, this is not a problem. "Actors like acting because they know what to say; the words are already written for them, " says Harmon. "They feel in control and more comfortable. "
For many actors, acting is a way to overcome shyness. "I started acting when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that, " says actor Catherine Bell. Like Bell, some actors get over their shyness after many years of acting. But for most actors, the shyness never completely goes away. "I'm still a little shy, " says Julia Roberts, "But now I'm not scared of a thing!"
"Moon uncle who lives far away, cooks delicious sweet bread……"
Does this lullaby(摇篮曲）bring back the sweet memories of your childhood? Many more lullabies are sung to children in diverse languages and dialects in India. However, all this rich and intangible heritage is vanishing because of the neglect of native culture and the influence of popular culture.
The Lori Project is the first of its kind to collect and document lullabies across India. It's a crowd-sourced project started by four friends: Shubham, Adya, Nishita and Anurag in May 2020. The idea came to Shubham when he failed to find authentic and culturally rooted Iullabies for his niece.
The team aims to enable the children of future generations to connect with their culture through lullabies. Lullabies have vivid descriptions of man's connection with nature. They are also windows to study the fascinating aspects of society over generations.
Multiple kinds of researches have been carried out to document the cultural aspects of India. But their findings remain restricted to libraries.
The major activities of the project are outreach and collection of lullabies from varied regions. The team ask for recordings of lullabies sung by everyday people in far off cities and villages over Whatsapp or E-mail. Then they upload these recordings on their social media and Youtube channels over which the audience can cherish the delightful melodies of their childhood.
Crowd sourcing lullabies by the use of social media can enable the team to revolutionize the entire system of culture. By engaging the plural communities of India, the project looks forward to promoting diversity in Indian culture with the creative potential of the lullaby.
Humans' ever spreading presence around the globe influences patterns of biological evolution in ways that we are just beginning to explore. On the Galapagos islands, a body of evidence shows that the effect of our presence is increasing.
Luis F. De León from University of Massachusetts, together with other 6 scientists spent two years observing Darwin's finches(雀类) to evaluate our effects on their behavior. They started by conducting feeding observations on coexisting finch species at sites that range from non-urban to urban. They also employed finch-human interaction experiments to test whether and how finches respond to human presence. To measure whether finch feeding preferences varied with the degree of urbanization, "cafeteria" experiments were carried out－finches were presented with a selection of human and native food items.
The scientists found that Darwin's finches fed almost on human foods like rice and cookies or introduced garden species at urban locations. In contrast, at non-urban sites, finches fed mainly on native plant species and insects. Interaction tests suggest that urban birds get more accustomed to the presence of humans. Finally, at all sites of regular human presence, finches preferred human foods to natural foods.
The researchers warn that exploiting urban environments might present challenges for organisms, including shorter lifespans brought on by the consumption of highly processed foods. Furthermore, the year-round availability of abundant human foods in urban environments might affect ecological and evolutionary processes that promoted species diversification. While the results clearly show a shift to human foods in urban sites, the adaptive significance of that shift is still an open question.
These findings also suggest that human behavior is the main driver of finch preference for human foods. The researchers propose a possibility that the effect of human behavior is facilitated by our tendency to feed birds, be it directly or inadvertently via food dropping or littering.
About a decade ago, the word "social media" wouldn't have been heard by many. But today, social media seems to be one of man's most important social needs. Social media has not
only found new ways of communication but also changed the world's viewpoint on it..
The most clear benefit of social media is the increase in the speed of communication. The obvious fault of the traditional communication system was its slow nature. Messages are getting delivered within seconds. News spreads to multiple people within an eye blink.
Many artists are gaining popularity with the use of social media. Gifted people from the rural and remote areas are now seeking public attention through social networks.
Now let's have a look at the other side too. Communication was the main purpose of the invention of social media. This purpose seems to be fulfilled from outside. The amount of fake news is increasing day by day.
In this era of technology, both online and offline conversations are dominated by social media interactions. With easy person-to-person access by using social media, people are becoming lazy.
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With the increasing globalization, we cannot ignore social media. If used within limits, social media is indeed a blessing for mankind. Regulations on the use of social media can lead us towards much faster and more reliable communication.
A. Social media seems to be a solution.
B. But communication is absolutely realistic.
C. They are losing interest in meeting others in person.
D. Much like everything, social media also has two sides.
E. However, the soul of the communication seems to have been lost.
F. Various applications are giving a platform to show people's talent.
G. Social media also provides an inside perspective of faraway places.
佳选项。
It was Jennifer Williams's mother who read to her in her childhood and got her keen on books. When Williams, now 54, became an elementary school teacher in Virginia, she wanted her1 to fall in love with reading as she had. But early on, she realized some kids had2access to books.
"It's very 3 to teachers of young children which kids are 4 to and which are not, " she said. "even just at the end of the first day of school, " To Williams, the 5 was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, she6900 used children's books. Most people would be 7with that. Most, but not her.
"I was like, 'Anybody could 8 that. '"she said. "But I wanted to achieve something that's going to 9 my belief, my values, my everything. "
So she set a new 10 for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like a(n) 11 number; but as Williams posted on Facebook: "Don't 12in the bleachers(看台） if you aren't willing to work hard out on the 13. "
So she got to work, first by 14 friends to donate books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams's project spread,15started leaving books on her front. door. As16as the books come in, Williams sends them to local schools and also 17books to little free libraries around the city. She also 18a book club in the local prison.
In the four years when she's been doing all this, the 19 Lady, as. Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78, 000 books - only 922, 000 more to reach her goal! And she's not slowing down. It's too20for kids with few options.
Mi Fu, also known as Mi Fei, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher(书法家） born in Taiyuan, Shanxi during the Song dynasty. In painting he gained (recognize) for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style was considered as the "Mi Fu" style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink (apply) with a flat brush. His poetry followed the style of Li Bai and his calligraphy that of Wang Xizhi.
He is best known for his calligraphy, he is regarded as one of the four（great) calligraphers in the Song dynasty. His style arises from that of calligraphers in earlier dynasties, but with a unique markhis own.
As famous calligrapher, Mi Fu was also noted as an eccentric(怪人). At times he(call)"Madman Mi" because he was(true) crazy about collecting stones. He even declared one stone to be his brother. He would bow to his "brother"rock （display) the devotion given to older brothers. His son, Mi Youren, was also a famous painter in his father's artistic style. Unlike his father, Mi Youren lived to be quite elderly, (die) at the age of 79.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ 
), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及修改均仅限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
As a volunteer, I get the pleasure of spending my free time do something I love. I share my passion for the natural world with anyone would like to listen. It can be as simply as pointing out the direction of a café. It can also be about using our knowledge to inspire people to think more about a natural world around them. Over the years, I've seen thousand of children and young people visiting to the zoo. I knew that I have a role in helping them learn about protecting the world they live in. It reminds me of what I have been inspired by them to become a conservationist. Knowing that in my own way I can make a difference have always been my inspiration.
