{
    "term": "teaching",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the work of a teacher",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She wants to go into teaching *(= make it a career)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has now retired from full-time teaching"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The course combines classroom teaching and distance learning."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How much teaching do you actually do?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **teaching profession **"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**teaching staff**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "traditional/innovative **teaching methods**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Applicants must hold a recognized teaching qualification."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Music can be a valuable teaching tool."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a part-time teaching job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Critics say that these tests waste teaching time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've been in teaching for ten years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mr Murphy retired at the end of a 30-year teaching career."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She used puppets as teaching aids."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The aim of the campaign is to promote the teaching of science."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The teaching year runs from October to May."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Work experience is integrated into the teaching programme."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Write each teaching point on the whiteboard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has extensive teaching experience."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Teaching methods have not changed as much as people might think."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system should reward good classroom teaching."
                },
                {
                    "text": "secondary school teaching"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "good", "poor"],
                "verb + teaching": ["get into", "go into", "promote"],
                "teaching + noun": ["method", "strategy", "style"],
                "preposition": ["in teaching"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an approach to teaching",
                    "a method of teaching",
                    "a style of teaching"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the ideas of a particular person or group, especially about politics, religion or society, that are taught to other people",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "views that go against traditional Catholic teaching"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the teachings of Lenin"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The culture is based in the teachings of Confucius."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was hoping to deepen his awareness of Islamic teaching."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the fundamental teachings of the Buddha"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the disciples who passed on Jesus's teaching"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Church's teaching on forgiveness"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He followed the teachings of the Bible on this subject."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["ancient", "traditional", "official"],
                "verb + teaching": ["follow", "contradict", "accept"],
                "preposition": ["in the teaching", "teaching about", "teaching on"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtiːtʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "te/teaching/teaching__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈtiːtʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "te/teaching/teaching__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}