You have already annotated a real Irish job advert and named the skills it asked for. Open that Job Description Annotation 1 document again and keep it beside you, because today you are going to test one of your own skills against it: does that skill actually travel from one place to another, or does it only work where you first learned it? You will record what you find in a Transferable Skills document saved in the same folder.

A skill that only works in one place is useful there. A transferable skill is useful again when the room, the people, and the task change. That is the claim this lesson will prove or break with evidence, not slogans.

You only need three terms today. Read them once, then leave the table open while you build the map.

The class builds the shape together first. In the list-builder you will take one skill: communication and agree three real lines: one lived occasion in school, one lived occasion at home or in a part-time job, and one from a workplace, placement or volunteering setting.

A line only goes on the board when it names a specific occasion rather than a vague claim, so "I'm good at talking to people" will not get on, whereas "I explained the fundraiser rota to three people who had missed the meeting" will. If you have never worked or volunteered, the third line can instead be a bridge to the advert: you quote the wording the advert uses and then say how you would adapt the same skill to do that job. Quoting the advert on its own is not enough, because the adaptation is the part that shows the skill travelling.

When the class build ends: your own skill goes only in Transferable Skills, not in the shared list-builder. Create or open that document in your Strand 1.1 folder (a new doc is fine if you do not have one yet) and write:

• the skill you chose
• three named contexts with one real line each (school; home or part-time work; workplace, placement or volunteering, or a bridge to the advert)
• one required closing sentence on what stayed the same across all three, and what you had to change

Here is the shape of one entry. Copy the structure and fill it with your own skill and your own occasions:

• Skill: communication
• School: Explained the group plan in Business when two people had different versions of the task
• Home or part-time work: Talked a customer through a refund at the till without escalating to the supervisor
• Workplace or bridge to the advert: Advert asks you to answer product questions clearly; I would keep the calm tone from the till and drop classroom jargon for plain product language
• Same / changed: Listening and staying calm stayed the same; I changed the vocabulary and how much detail I gave

Digital Portfolio: save as Transferable Skills: [Your Name] in Strand 1.1 (labelled bullets or a three-row table is fine). This entry is an evidence store for later Situation / Action / Result work and your Portfolio in Action.

If your skill only works honestly in one context, say so. Finding that out is worth as much as the other answer: that skill is useful, but it is not transferable yet.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then lock the wording in your Transferable Skills document.

• If one of your three contexts is empty or forced, is that skill transferable yet, or only strong in one place?
• What stayed the same across your three occasions, and what did you have to change for the skill to still work? Your closing sentence on this is required in the document; use the pair talk to check it is honest before you finalise it.

• A transferable skill is one demanded in more than one context, not just named on a list
• You tested one skill across school, home or part-time work, and a workplace, placement or volunteering setting, or a bridge to the advert
• Each context needed a real occasion or a clear adaptation bridge; claims without a moment do not count
• If a skill only worked in one context, you treated that as evidence, not failure
• Your Digital Portfolio entry Transferable Skills: [Your Name], saved in your Strand 1.1 folder, now holds the three lines plus the required same/changed sentence, ready for later Situation / Action / Result work and Portfolio in Action