textbook exercises

Meaning

Textbook exercises are the practical tasks, questions, or activities found in a school coursebook. Teachers assign them to help students practice and review what they have just learned in a lesson.

Examples

• For homework tonight, please complete the textbook exercises on page 45.

  For homework tonight, please complete the textbook exercises on page 45.

• Doing the textbook exercises helped me understand the math lesson much better.

  Doing the textbook exercises helped me understand the math lesson much better.

• The teacher went over the answers to the textbook exercises at the start of the class.

  The teacher went over the answers to the textbook exercises at the start of the class.

• I spent two hours working on the chemistry textbook exercises yesterday.

  I spent two hours working on the chemistry textbook exercises yesterday.

• These textbook exercises are too difficult for me to solve alone.

  These textbook exercises are too difficult for me to solve alone.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ I did all the text book exercises.

  ✓ I did all the textbook exercises.

  'Textbook' is written as a single word, not two separate words.

• ✗ The teacher gave us many exercises of textbook.

  ✓ The teacher gave us many textbook exercises.

  In English, we use 'textbook' as a noun modifier directly before 'exercises' instead of using 'of'.

Related Expressions

Practice

• If you don't understand the grammar, try doing the ___ at the end of chapter three.

  💡 Tasks in your coursebook.

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  textbook exercises

• Our teacher always checks the ___ to make sure we did our homework.

  💡 The practice questions in our school book.

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  textbook exercises