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.