- lesson
- noun1 period of teaching or learningADJECTIVE▪ good, interesting▪ boring▪ individual▪ private▪ driving, English, geography, history, music, piano, swimming, etc.VERB + LESSON▪ attend, go to, have, take▪
I go to Italian lessons at the local college.
▪I'm taking driving lessons at the moment.
▪ begin, start▪She started guitar lessons at the age of 38.
▪ 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. (BrE)
▪He doesn't teach very many lessons these days.
▪ get▪Students get lessons on how to organize their study time.
▪ prepare▪The trouble is that teachers don't prepare their lessons carefully enough.
▪ miss, skip▪He got into trouble for skipping lessons.
LESSON + NOUN▪ plan▪She was preparing a lesson plan for a class she was teaching.
PREPOSITION▪ during a/the lesson▪No talking was allowed during the lesson.
▪ in a/the lesson▪You can't expect to learn all there is to know about the subject in a 45-minute lesson.
▪ lesson about▪a lesson about the Civil War
▪ lesson in▪He took lessons in Thai cookery.
▪ lesson on▪a lesson on the Roman Empire
▪ lesson with▪They have a lesson with Mrs Evans at two o'clock.
2 sth learned through experienceADJECTIVE▪ basic, big, good, great, important, salutary, useful, valuable▪ bitter, hard, painful▪It's a hard lesson 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▪What lessons can we draw from this unfortunate experience?
▪ teach sb▪It taught me some valuable lessons about working with other people.
▪ apply▪ forget, remember▪We need to remember the lessons of history.
PREPOSITION▪ lesson from▪There are important lessons to be learned from this mistake.
▪ lesson in▪I had learned a lesson in respecting the privacy of others.
▪ lesson of▪It is dangerous to ignore the lessons of the past.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
