worksheet

«worksheet» in Mova's school dictionary: a sheet of paper with questions, exercises or tasks that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a worksheet, worksheets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A worksheet is a sheet of paper with questions, exercises or tasks that a pupil fills in. tree →

2) In a computer spreadsheet program, a worksheet is one page of rows and columns. tree →

sense in the lessons

At school the teacher hands out worksheets for maths, spelling, reading and science, and pupils write answers in the spaces. Homework is often a worksheet. Phrases: fill in a worksheet, hand out worksheets, finish your worksheet, a maths worksheet.

examples

• The teacher gave us a worksheet on fractions. tree →
• Please write your name at the top of the worksheet. tree →
• I finished my spelling worksheet before lunch. tree →
• The worksheet had ten sums and a word problem. tree →
• Mum helped me with my homework worksheet. tree →
• Hand in your worksheets at the end of the lesson. tree →
• In the spreadsheet, click the second worksheet to see the prices. tree →
• If each worksheet has 8 questions, 3 worksheets have 24 questions. tree →

note

Countable noun: a worksheet, two worksheets. Written as one word. In the UK and Australia people also say activity sheet; in the USA a simple worksheet may be called a handout. The answers usually go on the worksheet itself.

In the corpora

• A lost worksheet can be got again from a classmate, the teacher or the school website.
• When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone.
• Lucas knows the strict logic; the teacher still hands him a worksheet.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «worksheet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.