Ready
Ready verb - To make competent (as by training, skill, or ability) for a particular office or function.
Usage example: this advanced course should ready him for college
Teach
Teach verb - To cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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If they teach gym, you'd better be ready for Dodgeball Hell every day, if not worse.
Source: Sadist Teacher -
Reese, however, refuses to teach Finch and instead suggests that Finch perform the very valuable assistance of being ready with the get-away car.
Source: Batman Grabs a Gun - A common way to use this trope is for an Old Master to teach the technique but insist that the hero isn't ready to use it yet.
Source: Dangerous Forbidden Technique
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