The phrase "gave a workshop" is grammatically correct and it can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of teaching or leading a workshop or training session. Example: "The professor gave a workshop on effective public speaking techniques for the students."
He gave a workshop on how to grow orchids under lights.
Laura Day, the author of "Practical Intuition," recently gave a workshop on empowerment at Demi Moore's Idaho home that was written up in Marie Claire magazine.
In 2009, Shafer built a house in northern California and towed it to the parking lot of a hotel at the end of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, where he gave a workshop on how to build a tiny house.
Recently, she gave a workshop, "Feeding Your Soul: How to Have a Balanced Life in Spite of it All," to the Independent Business Women's Circle, a lunch-hour group that meets in Great Neck.
In her second year the artist Richard Wilson gave a workshop on casting and, importantly for the rest of her career, Whiteread saw for the first time that the cast of the space around a simple spoon resulted in it "simultaneously both losing and retaining elements of its essential 'spoon-ness'.
In November 2013, they gave a workshop in Barcelona aimed at encouraging better communication between bioinformaticists and biologists.
The play was given a workshop production at the La Jolla Playhouse, in San Diego in February and March.
Marcus Sedgwick will give a workshop on Gormenghast at Edinburgh international book festival on Thursday August 21.
In October, the teachers will give a workshop at the center that has attracted interest from neurologists in England and Norway.
"Chef Antoine Heerrah gives a workshop on how to cook bananas, and the children learn banana songs as well as take part in a banana barbecue".
Now Stanley Walden, a composer, has turned the piece into a new jazz opera, which will be given a workshop production this weekend by the Center for Contemporary Opera.
