Lecture facts for kids

A lecture at the University of Bologna in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. The lecturer reads from a text on the lectern while students in the back sleep.

A lecture is when someone talks to a group of people about something interesting. It is like a lesson. At college or university students go to lectures to learn things. The person who is teaching (talking to the group) is called the lecturer. The lecturer may accept questions from the audience.

Sometimes we say that someone was "given a lecture". This means that he was told off for doing something wrong.

Images for kids

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  Lecture at the Australian Defence Force Academy

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  Barbara McClintock delivers her Nobel lecture

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  Golan Levin lecturing using a projected side

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  Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp

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  Civil lecture at Budapest Brain Bar

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  Professor of the Tampere University of Technology lecturing in 2007