teach

To help someone learn facts or skills by explaining or showing them.

• Can you teach me?
• My father taught me to ride a bike.
• She teaches children how to read.

How to use it: teach someone something (My aunt taught me French.); teach someone to do something (Can you teach me to swim?); teach someone how to do something (She taught us how to make bread.)

Similar words: instruct, train

Common phrases: teach someone something, teach someone to swim, teach a skill, teach someone to sew

To work as a person who helps students learn, especially in a school.

• I teach at a school.
• He taught for thirty years.
• Would you like to teach abroad?

How to use it: teach at somewhere (She teaches at a local college.)

Common phrases: teach at school, teach full time, teach abroad