noun
1 period of teaching or learning
ADJECTIVE
▪ good , interesting
▪ boring
▪ individual
▪ private
▪ driving , English , geography , history , music , piano , swimming , etc.
VERB + LESSON
▪ attend , go to , have , take
▪
I go to Italian ~s at the local college.
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I'm taking driving ~s at the moment.
▪ begin , start
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She started guitar ~s at the age of 38.
▪ give (sb) , offer (sb) , provide , take , teach
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She gives singing ~s.
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They're offering free ~s in computing.
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I had to take a biology ~ this afternoon because the biology teacher was away. ( BrE )
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He doesn't teach very many ~s these days.
▪ get
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Students get ~s on how to organize their study time.
▪ prepare
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The trouble is that teachers don't prepare their ~s carefully enough.
▪ miss , skip
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He got into trouble for skipping ~s.
LESSON + NOUN
▪ plan
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She was preparing a ~ plan for a class she was teaching.
PREPOSITION
▪ during a/the ~
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No talking was allowed during the ~.
▪ in a/the ~
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You can't expect to learn all there is to know about the subject in a 45-minute ~.
▪ ~ about
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a ~ about the Civil War
▪ ~ in
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He took ~s in Thai cookery.
▪ ~ on
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a ~ on the Roman Empire
▪ ~ with
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They have a ~ with Mrs Evans at two o'clock.
2 sth learned through experience
ADJECTIVE
▪ basic , big , good , great , important , salutary , useful , valuable
▪ bitter , hard , painful
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It's a hard ~ to learn.
▪ clear
▪ real
▪ life , moral
▪ object (= a practical example of what you should or should not do in a particular situation)
VERB + LESSON
▪ draw , learn
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What ~s can we draw from this unfortunate experience?
▪ teach sb
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It taught me some valuable ~s about working with other people.
▪ apply
▪ forget , remember
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We need to remember the ~s of history.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ from
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There are important ~s to be learned from this mistake.
▪ ~ in
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I had learned a ~ in respecting the privacy of others.
▪ ~ of
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It is dangerous to ignore the ~s of the past.