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Teach Taught Tiːtʃ Teaching Verb Local School Years

Word3 teach
WordType (verb)
Phonetic /tiːtʃ/ /tiːtʃ/
Example
  • she teaches at our local school.
  • he taught for several years before becoming a writer.
  • i'll be teaching history and sociology next term.
  • to teach yoga classes
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teach

(verb)/tiːtʃ/ /tiːtʃ/

    Verb Forms

  1. to give lessons to students in a school, college, university, etc.; to help somebody learn something by giving information about it
    • She teaches at our local school.
    • He taught for several years before becoming a writer.
    • I'll be teaching history and sociology next term.
    • to teach yoga classes
    • to teach school (= teach in a school)
    • He teaches English to advanced students.
    • He teaches them English.
    • My wife teaches undergraduate students.
    • Schools should teach children about healthy eating.

    Extra Examples

    • information which helps the teacher teach more effectively
    • I am not qualified to teach this subject.
    • training courses designed to teach managerial techniques
    • the languages that are commonly taught in schools today
    • teaching children about the world around them
  2. to show somebody how to do something so that they will be able to do it themselves
    • Could you teach me to do that?
    • I'm trying to teach my daughter to behave.
    • My father taught me how to ride a bike.
  3. to make somebody feel or think in a different way
    • She taught me to be less critical of other people.
    • My parents taught me that honesty was always the best policy.
    • The book teaches that we shouldn't be afraid of change.
    • Our experience as refugees taught us many valuable lessons.
  4. to persuade somebody not to do something again by making them suffer so much that they are afraid to do it
    • Lost all your money? That'll teach you to gamble.
    • I'll teach you to call (= punish you for calling) me a liar!
    • The accident taught me a lesson I'll never forget.
  5. to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can
  6. (you cannot) successfully make people change their ideas, methods of work, etc., when they have had them for a long time
  7. to teach students only what is necessary in order to pass a particular test, rather than help them develop a range of skills
  8. Word Origin

    • Old English tǣcan ‘show, present, point out’, of Germanic origin; related to token, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek deiknunai ‘show’, deigma ‘sample’.
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