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Team activities can teach more skills for life than those activities which are played alone. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#team #activities #skills #life
Physical
activities
 are a very important part of
day
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especially
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,especially
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 for young children. Every parent has
hard
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 time deciding on which after-school
activities
 their kids should go
.
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 There are lots of diverse classes and the main difference between them is their structure –
group
 or private lessons. I fully agree with the statement that team
activities
 can teach more practical and life skills than
activities
 played alone.
To begin
 with, kids that start attending
group
 classes are acquiring not only physical skills but
also
 learning how to perform in a
group
 of other people. They find out how to share, describe what they think and give their opinion. These skills are very handy and helpful later on in every stage of life.
Secondly
, while attending private lessons youth do not have a chance to make new friends. Usually, all they spend time with is their trainer.
However
, signing up kids to
a
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group activities
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group
activities
 allows them to make new friends. And who knows, one day some of them may become their best friends.
Furthermore
,
bigger
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 amount of after-school
trainings
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training
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 are sports played in teams which leads to
bigger
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the bigger
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 choice of activity. Juvenile
do
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 not know
in
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which sport are they good at or what they like until they have a chance to try some different things.
This
 way they can find their calling and maybe one day become a well-known athlete.
Summarizing
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, introverts may prefer private classes meanwhile extroverts would choose
group
 lessons. It really depends on
a
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 person. I myself think that being surrounded by other people can teach us lots of helpful things and give us experience that we could not acquire by being by ourselves.
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  • leadership
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  • belonging
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