What does consulate mean?
Word: Consulate
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Consulate means an official office that one country keeps in a city of another country to help its own people there and deal with travel papers.
How do you spell consulate?
Syllables: con - su - late
Tricky part: In quick speech the close sounds like lit or let, so students write consulit or consulet.
Watch out for: consulit, consulet
Memory tip: Chocolate has the same quiet ending as this word. Say chocolate, and the close of the word will follow.
Consulate in a sentence
Example 1: The French consulate in Puducherry stands near the sea.
Example 2: A long queue had formed outside the consulate by nine o'clock.
Example 3: Our neighbour works as a clerk at the Japanese consulate in Sydney.
Fun Fact
A country usually keeps one embassy, in the capital, but it can open several consulates in other big cities. That is why cities such as New York and Hong Kong have so many of them.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
co_s_late
a) n, u
b) n, e
c) n, o
d) m, u
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a) n, u. The opening is the con of contest, and the middle beat takes a u, as it does in insult.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tlancuose
a) consulate
b) constable
c) consumer
d) consultant
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a) consulate. The jumble has one n and one t, which rules out consultant, and it has no b or m.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) ambassador
b) consullate
c) governor
d) parliament
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b) consullate. A single l is all that this word has after the u.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
My aunt went to the consulate in Chennai to colect her passport.
a) aunt
b) consulate
c) passport
d) colect
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d) colect. Collect has a double l, the same as college.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which task is a likely part of the work at a consulate?
a) repairing buses for the city
b) teaching maths to young pupils
c) stamping visa forms for visitors
d) growing vegetables for a market
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c) stamping visa forms for visitors
2. Why do foreign countries open offices of this kind in Mumbai?
a) to sell tickets for their films
b) to teach English in local schools
c) to serve their people and visitors
d) to train their national teams
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c) to serve their people and visitors
