What does sponsorship mean?
Word: Sponsorship
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Sponsorship means support, usually money, that a company or person gives to an event, team or person, often in return for advertising.
Synonyms: backing, funding, support
How do you spell sponsorship?
Syllables: spon - sor - ship
Tricky part: The middle vowel is o, not e: spon-sor-ship. Students write sponsership because both vowels sound weak.
Watch out for: sponsership, sponcership, sponsurship
Memory tip: Picture a company logo shaped like two round O's on a cricket shirt: both early beats of sponsorship have an o.
Sponsorship in a sentence
Example 1: The bank's sponsorship paid for the stage lights at our annual day.
Example 2: Thanks to sponsorship from a local business, the village library got fifty new books.
Example 3: The science fair is looking for sponsorship to buy prizes.
Fun Fact
The root is the Latin spondere, to promise solemnly; the first people given this title were godparents, who made promises for a child.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Champ
Choose the correct word for the blank:
When a company pays the costs of a quiz show in return for advertising, this is called ___.
a) donation
b) allowance
c) sponsorship
d) subscription
Show answer
c) sponsorship. A donation asks for nothing back, an allowance is regular pocket money and a subscription pays for a magazine or service.
Word Fusion
Choose the two parts that join to make a real word:
1. sponsor 2. ness 3. hood 4. less 5. dom 6. ship
a) 1 and 3
b) 1 and 6
c) 3 and 5
d) 2 and 4
Show answer
b) 1 and 6. Ship turns the person into the support given; hooddom, sponsorhood and nessless are not words.
Word Tally
You get 2 marks for each correctly spelt word. How many marks will you get?
sponsorship, citizenship, partnirship, hardship, scolarship
a) 10
b) 4
c) 6
d) 8
Show answer
c) 6. Partnership needs er and scholarship needs its h; the other three are right, so the total is six marks.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is an example of sponsorship?
a) a parent packing a school lunch
b) a shop paying for a team's kit bags
c) a teacher checking the homework
d) a friend lending a spare pencil
Show answer
b) a shop paying for a team's kit bags
2. Which of these would a school most likely look for sponsorship for?
a) a pupil's lost pencil
b) the morning roll call
c) a sports day with prizes
d) a weekly spelling test
Show answer
c) a sports day with prizes
