To give a lesson? To teach a lesson?

Could you please help me find more synonyms for "to give a lesson" which could be inserted into the following sentence:
Ann ____________ her first lesson as a trainee teacher.

1) to teach a lesson
2) to conduct a lesson
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Thank you in advance.

For the verb teach, in the simple past, try: educate, instruct, school, tutor, coach, train; enlighten, illuminate, verse, edify, indoctrinate; drill, discipline.

For the verb conduct, again in the simple past, try: manage, direct, run, administer, organize, coordinate, orchestrate, handle, control, oversee, supervise, regulate, carry out/on.

First, you make a sentence and then we'll give you our opinion.

John

She gave/took/taught her first lesson/class; she taught for the first time.

She conducted her first lesson does not sound natural to me.

5jj said:

She gave/took/taught her first lesson/class; she taught for the first time.

She conducted her first lesson does not sound natural to me.

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She gave/ taught her first lesson/ class are natural examples. As for the others, I have never come across them in natural speech.

'She took her first lesson' would mean that she was a student and took her first class or lesson in a certain subject.

Conducted is a lot frozen. It can't be used in a natural context.

nouamaneer said:

'She took her first lesson' would mean that she was a student and took her first class or lesson in a certain subject.

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In BrE, as has been pointed out very recently in another thread, Teachers can take (i.e. teach) classes in BrE. Students can take (= attend as a learner) classes. Context makes the meaning clear.

JohnParis said:

First, you make a sentence and then we'll give you our opinion.

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I did make a sentence with one missing verb ("Ann __________ her first lesson as a trainee teacher.")

JohnParis said:

For the verb teach, in the simple past, try: educate, instruct, school, tutor, coach, train; enlighten, illuminate, verse, edify, indoctrinate; drill, discipline.

For the verb conduct, again in the simple past, try: manage, direct, run, administer, organize, coordinate, orchestrate, handle, control, oversee, supervise, regulate, carry out/on.

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John, thank you for the vocabulary, but I needed the verbs to go together with the word "lesson" in the following sentence:
"She __________ her first lesson as a trainee teacher."

Now I see that verbs "give" and "teach" can be used here. Thanks to everyone who contributed to my thread.

P.S. There's one more word that I have forgotten about - "to hold (a lesson)". Does it sound natural to say :she held her first lesson as a trainee teacher?

englishhobby said:

P.S. There's one more word that I have forgotten about - "to hold (a lesson)". Does it sound natural to say :she held her first lesson as a trainee teacher?

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Not really. We can hold a tutorial or seminar, but not a lesson, in my opinion.

Thank you! This thread has been very useful to me.