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Young People & Humour

THE GIFTS OF YOUTH vigour, imagination, creativity adventure, innovation, talent, ambition, enthusiasm audacity, rebellious, old-fashioned, intolerant, strong-headed, thoughtless, severe, bossy, careless, immature, untidy, disobedient, undemocratic, obstinate, adventurous, mean, nosy, authoritarian. HUMOUR humour, a joke, humorous, an impression, to make fun of someone, to kid, silly, witty, joy, anger, gaiety, despair, delight, depression, loneliness, sadness, frustration, cheerfulness, merriment, worry, vivacity, calm, satisfaction, enthusiasm, fear, optimism, jubilation.   Exercise : Which words can you associate more with GIFT and which can you associate with                       HUMOUR? amusement, fun, expertise, skill, genius, joking, faculty, entertainment, power, talent, aptness, kidding, pleasantry, competence, light-heartedness, laughter   GIFT HUMOUR ........................

Collocations

" Collocation refers to how words go together or form fixed relationships." (English Grammar Today in Cambridge Dictionary). "The combination of words formed when two or more words are often used together in a way that sounds correct: The phrase "a hard frost" is a collocation." (Cambridge English Dictionary) adult illiteracy adult literacy boarding school brain drain civic education common good communication technology critical thinking cultural diversity developed countries developing countries digital camera educational system equal opportunity equal rights formal education gender gap general assembly generation gap have access have fun health care high priority higher education human rights informal education information technology international organizations local community look forward make a mistake/mistakes mobile phone natural disaster non-formal education non...