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# Class and Lesson

## Expressions with class

* teach a class
* attend a class
* miss a class
* be in the same class as (her)
* pay attention in class
* be top / bottom of the class

## Verb + lesson

* prepare a lesson
* give lessons
* go to lessons
* enjoy a lesson
* have a lesson (on pollution)
* spend the lesson (writing, reading)

## Exercise

### Expressions with class

1. If Tanya paid more attention in class, she'd get better marks in her tests. - e
2. Heather and I are old friends. I was in the same class as her at school. - f
3. Jenny was the brightest student. She was always top of the class. - d
4. Our teacher was absent, so the headmaster taught the class. - c
5. I missed my class this morning because I had to go to the dentist. - b
6. He *got into trouble* when his father found out he wasn’t attending classes. - a

### Verb + lesson

1. I ***enjoy*** most of my lessons at school, but I find maths dead boring.
2. One of my students asked me if I could ***give*** her private English lessons after school.
3. Physics was boring today. We ***spent*** the whole lesson copying from the blackboard!
4. My mother has started ***going*** to French lessons at the local college in the evening,
5. We ***had*** a lesson on the Spanish Civil War in history today.
6. As a teacher, I usually spend Sunday evening marking essays and ***preparing*** my lessons for the following week.

## Note

1. **You can have driving, piano, singing, golf, dancing, private lessons:**

* *I can't meet you till after my piano lesson at 5.*
* *I've started going to dancing lessons.*