You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.
Your local hospital has advertised people to do unpaid work helping at the hospital. You would like to do some work at the hospital in your free time. Write a letter to the hospital.
In your letter
- explain why you would like to do unpaid work at the hospital
- say what type of unpaid work you would be able to do
- give details of when you would be available for this work
You should write at least 150 words.
You do NOT need to write any addresses.
Begin your letter as follows:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Sample Answer 1:
Dear Sir or Madam,
In response to a recent advertisement broadcast on television, I would like to offer myself as an enlistee for the unpaid work at your hospital. I consider this a great chance to serve the patients and best utilise my spare time for humanitarian works. I am hoping that you would let me offer my service.
My parents are doctors and they devote their professional lives to serve people and society as a whole. I am highly inspired by them and want to do something of my own for people who need care. What can be a better place to assist people than in a hospital? Moreover, I have around two hours to spare each day in the evening and I live nearby. I would like to best use the superfluous hours of my daily routine in philanthropic work. I have previous experiences of doing some voluntary works for our community.
I can assist a professional nurse, take care of babies, help patients to move and bring them meals. I am, in reality, ready to learn to do any type of work to help people in this hospital. I can work from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm every day except on Saturday.
Hope you hear your positive response and start my work soon.
Yours faithfully,
Sara Sandler
Sample Answer 2:
Dear Sir or Madam,
It is magnificent to see such an admirable initiative on your part to motivate people to do some unpaid work to help your hospital in our town. While the advertisement does not exactly say what kind of unpaid work for which you are seeking help, I think that I could still be a part of this great initiative, simply because it would allow me to help ill people in the hospital while utilising my spare time to do something good for others.
Besides, this little unpaid work experience would enable me to learn something noble that I would be able to use for the rest of my life. Again, I understand that you have not asked to fill in any specific vacant job positions in your advertisement, but I would surely love to assist a nurse or a doctor in taking the temperature of patients as well as checking their blood pressure to name a few ways I can help them.
So, please consider me for the position of an ‘unpaid worker’ as it would not only allow me to gain some valuable experience but also help your regular staff to reduce some of their extra workloads. By the way, I am available to work every day from Monday to Friday from 4.00 pm to 7.30 pm.
Yours faithfully,
Adrian Farrel