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lesson
verbs
take lessons
• He started taking piano lessons at age four.
have lessons
• I have swimming lessons on Friday.
go to a lesson
( also attend a lesson formal )
• I have to go to my French lesson now.
give lessons
(= teach lessons )
• She made a living giving private lessons in English.
prepare a lesson
• The teachers spend a long time preparing their lessons.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + lesson
a history/physics/maths etc lesson
• I've got a history lesson this afternoon.
a driving/swimming etc lesson
• Dad said he'd pay for driving lessons as my birthday present.
a piano/guitar etc lesson
• I'd just started classical guitar lessons.
a private lesson
(= a lesson specially for one person rather than for a class )
• He gave private lessons in mathematics at the weekends.
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noun period of teaching or learning ADJ. good, interesting | boring | individual | private | driving, English, geography, maths, piano, swimming, etc. VERB + LESSON attend, go to, have, take I go to Italian lessons at the local college. We had a history lesson followed by a double maths lesson. I'm taking driving lessons at the moment. | give (sb), offer (sb), provide, take, teach She gives singing lessons. They're offering free lessons in computing. I had to take a biology lesson this afternoon because the biology teacher was away. He doesn't teach very many lessons these days. | get Pupils get lessons on how to organize their study time. | prepare The trouble is that teachers don't prepare their lessons carefully enough. | skip He got into trouble for skipping lessons. PREP. during a/the ~ No talking was allowed during the lesson. | in a/the ~ You can't expect to learn all there is to know about the subject in a 45-minute lesson. | ~ about a lesson about the Civil War | ~ in He took lessons in Thai cookery. | ~ on a lesson on the Roman Empire | ~ with They've got a lesson with Mrs Evans at two o'clock. sth learnt through experience ADJ. important, salutary, useful, valuable | bitter, hard, painful It's a hard lesson to learn. | clear VERB + LESSON draw, learn What lessons can we draw from this unfortunate experience? | teach sb It taught me some valuable lessons about working with other people. PREP. ~ from There are important lessons to be learnt from this mistake. | ~ in I learned a lesson in harsh economics when I was made redundant.
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