What does workshop mean?
Word: Workshop
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Workshop means a room or building where things are made or repaired with tools. It is also a meeting where a group of people learn a skill by doing it.
Synonyms: studio
How do you spell workshop?
Syllables: work - shop
Tricky part: The or in work is said like er, so children sometimes write werkshop. Shop ends in p without an e.
Watch out for: werkshop, workshope, wrokshop
Memory tip: Think of a worker in a shop: work keeps the o straight after the w, even though it sounds like werk.
Workshop in a sentence
Example 1: My uncle repairs bicycles and scooters in his small workshop near the market.
Example 2: Our class went to a pottery workshop and made clay pots.
Example 3: The carpenter's workshop smelled of sawdust and varnish.
Fun Fact
Shop first meant a small booth or stall. Workshop came later for a room where things are made rather than sold.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) forhead
b) nightmear
c) workshop
d) keybored
Show answer
c) workshop. Each wrong compound has a sound-alike part: mare is not mear, board is not bored, and fore has an e.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
hpwokrso
a) workbook
b) workshop
c) workplace
d) bookshop
Show answer
b) workshop. Split the jumble into work and shop and every letter is used.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
At the weekend workshop, we learnt to make kites from colourfull paper.
a) colourfull
b) kites
c) weekend
d) workshop
Show answer
a) colourfull. The ending -ful has one l, so colourful has a single l at the end.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: workshop
a) bedroom
b) workroom
c) showroom
d) storeroom
Show answer
b) workroom. A workshop is a workroom, a place where people make or mend things.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What would you expect to find in a workshop?
a) rows of cinema seats
b) a workbench and tools
c) shelves of library books
d) a dentist's chair
Show answer
b) a workbench and tools
2. At a painting workshop, people mostly ____.
a) vote for the best painting
b) buy paints at a discount
c) try painting with a teacher's help
d) watch a film about painters
Show answer
c) try painting with a teacher's help
