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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#m1)

2) In a computer spreadsheet program, a worksheet is one page of rows and columns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x1)
- Please write your name at the top of the worksheet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x2)
- I finished my spelling worksheet before lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x3)
- The worksheet had ten sums and a word problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x4)
- Mum helped me with my homework worksheet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x5)
- Hand in your worksheets at the end of the lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x6)
- In the spreadsheet, click the second worksheet to see the prices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x7)
- If each worksheet has 8 questions, 3 worksheets have 24 questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/254-classroom-rules-and-homework/19/)
- [When you need the true size, look for the evidence: the clock, the scales, the worksheet, the phone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/4/)
- [Lucas knows the strict logic; the teacher still hands him a worksheet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/184-if-then-and-its-traps/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «worksheet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/worksheet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.