[Vocabulary] Students take classes to learn. Do teachers give classes or take classes to teach?

[Aamir Tariq]

Students take classes to learn something or to go through some kind of training.
Do teachers, lecturers, professors take classes or give classes when they teach, deliver lectures or presentations or when they train students?

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Aamir the Global Citizen

 

[konungursvia]

Professors give lectures. Give and take seem to signify the flow of knowledge in this case.

 

[Raymott]

Professors can also 'take' classes, meaning the same as 'give'.

Professor 1: "Could you take my 4 pm class tomorrow? I have to meet the Dean."
Professor 2: "Sure".

 

[Skrej]

I usually refer to it as teaching a class.

Last semester I taught Transitional English and Reading Skills I. Next semester I'll teach Intro to Literature and Pre-Algebra.

 

[konungursvia]

Professors can also 'take' classes, meaning the same as 'give'.

Professor 1: "Could you take my 4 pm class tomorrow? I have to meet the Dean."
Professor 2: "Sure".

If they're taking it from another professor, to give the lecture to the students, it might be misleading to learners (slightly) to say that take means the same as give in such a context.

 

[tedmc]

I think "take lessons/course" is more specific to receiving knowledge/training or learning something.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

I think "take lessons/course" is more specific to receiving knowledge/training or learning something.

That's what I also think. But my original question is not about lectures but "classes" which Raymot has already answered in post 4, that "take" can also be used for teacher when they go to a class to deliver a lecture. However, additional knowledge from other native speakers is always welcome.

 

[GoesStation]

That's what I also think. But my original question is not about lectures but "classes" which Raymot has already answered in post 4, that "take" can also be used for teacher when they go to a class to deliver a lecture. However, additional knowledge from other native speakers is always welcome.

Take cannot be used in AmE by a teacher to mean they're going to give a lecture or teach a class. The one sense where a teacher would say that is if they are temporarily assuming responsibility for another teacher's class.

 

[Raymott]

There must be a regional difference in usage. In AusE, a teacher can take a class, and it means the same as 'give a class'.
kon, it has nothing to do with taking a class from someone else. The taking is the giving. You'll see that several British respondents on this forum agree.
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/to-take-a-class.170841/

 

[GoesStation]

I've edited my post to confess my parochialism.

 

[Aamir Tariq]

As does this speaker of BrE.

You mean you also agree with Raymott, what he has said in post 4 and 9? British and Australian speakers both agree then when a teacher is taking a class, he is there to deliver a lecture.