Professional Collocations — Beyond Babysitting: The Real Skills of Childcare
Grammar: collocations and fixed expressions in professional childcare contexts
Free ESL grammar exercise on professional collocations themed around beyond babysitting: the real skills of childcare. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on work, practising collocations and fixed expressions in professional childcare contexts. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The core competencies the sector demands divide roughly into three clusters. The first is child development literacy. The second is structured observation — the ability to record what you see in a way that informs planning.
Grammar
- Noun + noun
- Two nouns combine; the first modifies the second. child development, safeguarding concern, parent meeting — these are fixed professional pairs.
- Verb + noun
- Strong verb–noun pairings that carry professional register. conduct a meeting, flag a concern, record observations — avoid weak substitutes like 'do' or 'make'.
Sample items
- A crèche manager must ______ observations of every child in the room each week.
- If a practitioner notices unusual behaviour, she must ______ the concern immediately.
- The directress scheduled a ______ meeting to discuss the child's development with both parents.
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