Let’s talk about life skills today. What are they and, grammatically, what words do they go with?
What are Life Skills?
Life skills are abilities that make it possible for people to deal effectively with the challenges of life. Life skills can be divided into behavioural (connected with the way people act), cognitive (connected with how people think), or interpersonal (used for communicating with others) that enable individuals to succeed in various areas of life.
Collocations with words ‘life skills’ or ‘skills’:
Verbs plus ‘life skills’
e.g. to develop a life skill
- to develop: Children develop certain life skills early in life.
- to hone (to perfect): Adults need to keep working on honing their life skills throughout their lives.
- to require: Having a job will require the use of critical thinking skills.
- to learn. It is possible to learn life skills such as coping with stress or creative thinking by doing exercises.
- to acquire: Kids acquire many life skills from their parents.
- to teach: Parents should teach their kids some life skills such as effective communication.
- to improve: Teenagers can always improve their communication skills.
- to use: People use the life skills they have acquired in childhood and early adulthood their whole lives.
- to show: Alyssa showed great problem solving skills on the job today.
- to have: Peter has many important life skills.
- to need: Kids need to learn life skills such as communication, making connections between things, creativity, decision making and resilience.
- to demonstrate: to need: Kids need to demonstrate life skills such as communication, creativity, decision making or resilience at school and later in life.
- to test: The teachers test the kids’ life skills during classroom activities.
- to enhance: The parents can enhance their kids’ life skills by giving them tasks to do at home.
- to lack: Children who miss school a lot often lack certain life skills such as self-management or self-motivation.
- to gain: You can gain valuable life skills while volunteering at places where people need your help.
- to exhibit: Mariah exhibits superior resilience. Resilience is an important life skill.
- to practice: Children can practice their life skills at school and at home.
- to admire: I strongly admire your kids’ great life skills, especially their ability to manage their emotions.
Adjectives plus ‘skill’
e.g. technical skill
technical, great, basic, consummate, considerable, social, practical, artistic, professional, special, necessary, medical, diplomatic, extraordinary, excellent, specific, etc.,
Noun plus ‘skill’
e.g. leadership skill
leadership, communication, language, writing, management, thinking, superior, life, survival, problem solving, combat, reading, study, martial art, literacy, math, computer.,
Skill + Noun
e.g. skill level
level, set, training, development.,
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