(n.) The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
(n.) A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon.
(n.) A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority.
(n.) A rehearsal of a lesson.
(v. t.) To read or deliver a lecture to.
(v. t.) To reprove formally and with authority.
(v. i.) To deliver a lecture or lectures.
Example Sentences:
(1) The control group received the same information in lecture form.
(2) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(3) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(4) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(5) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(6) The authors discuss the appropriateness of teaching clinical pharmacology (CP) to fourth-year students, lectures in CP to fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year students in accordance with the study of the main clinical specialties (therapy, surgery, pediatrics, etc.
(7) The lecture remains the dominant form of instructional method.
(8) Mark Hellowell, lecturer in global health policy at Edinburgh University and an adviser to the Treasury select committee inquiry into PFIs, said: "There are some really significant risks to affordability here."
(9) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
(10) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(11) Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures.
(12) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(13) An English translation of the lecture is printed below.
(14) "I'm not here to lecture individuals about their private lives," he said.
(15) It was hypothesized that students receiving instruction via lectures and handouts would score significantly higher than students who only received handouts.
(16) Who better to lecture Muslims than Islam expert Donald Trump?
(17) The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of guided design and lecture teaching strategies on the clinical problem-solving performance of first quarter student nurses.
(18) You've read the book, now hear the lecture and watch the movie.
(19) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
(20) Subsequent to the questionnaire the PCCU liaison pharmacist implemented a visual display of monthly drug costs, an education program that included the presentation of questionnaire results, and drug information lectures discussing controversial therapeutic issues.
Syllabus
Definition:
(n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is fostered by recent syllabuses and guides produced by British statutory bodies responsible for basic and postbasic nursing research.
(2) The role of the nurse in the care of mentally handicapped people is increasingly one of teaching and training using behavioural methods, as witnessed, for example, by the new RNMS syllabus.
(3) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
(4) The GCSE would be replaced by an English Baccalaureate certificate, with the first students beginning syllabuses in English, maths and sciences from 2015, with exams in 2017, to be followed by history, geography and languages.
(5) The Guardian revealed in March that draft guidelines for children in key stages 1-3 had removed discussion of climate change in the geography syllabus, with only a single reference to how carbon dioxide produced by humans affects the climate in the chemistry section.
(6) Hull served on the religious education conference that produced the Birmingham Agreed Syllabus of 1975, one of the earliest to move away from traditional ideas of religious instruction.
(7) Barriers to injury prevention are identified and the Prevention of Injury Programme contained in the Health Education Syllabus for primary school children is described.
(8) Given both the limited experience of Undergraduate Teaching in Primary Health Care (PHC) and the lack of contact between different teaching centres, we sought to identify the minimum contents of a potential Syllabus.
(9) National and regional training facilities with a suitably adapted syllabus in radiotherapy and oncology must be a part of these priorities and strategies.
(10) He described the decision to remove Education for Leisure from the syllabus as "absolutely ridiculous.
(11) At the Xth European Congress in Athens 1985 we dealt with the teaching of general pathology in European undergraduate education program in medicine, and both subject content, time, place, pedagogics and the construction of a syllabus guide in general pathology were discussed and defined in detail.
(12) A plastic surgery syllabus for third-year medical students is described.
(13) After a nauseating impromptu public love-in with historian Niall Ferguson , who undermined what had been a persuasive argument on the reorganisation of the history syllabus by suggesting we adopt the US model – was there ever a nation who understood less of the world?
(14) "I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse.
(15) "The schools may also be required to teach a standard syllabus, because right now they can teach whatever they want.
(16) During the pilot project, a third-year resident studied a syllabus and reviewed slides, practiced performance skills, and observed colposcopies.
(17) The syllabus was announced by the minister for migration, Mark Harper, who complained that Labour's version featured "mundane information about water meters, how to find train timetables, and using the internet", as well as details of the welfare system.
(18) Syllabus-boundness ('Sylbism') emerges as a relatively independent trait, with a significant negative relationship to work satisfaction in both groups.
(19) • Language experts have welcomed the trend, but say students should be introduced to language study before secondary school • There was a big drop in pupils getting top grades in the sciences , after the introduction of new syllabuses and exams - 53.1% of science entries were awarded between an A* and a C, down from 60.7% last year.
(20) There was a big drop in pupils getting top grades in the sciences , after the introduction of new syllabuses and exams - 53.1% of science entries were awarded between an A* and a C, down from 60.7% last year.