Below is a practice exercise to help you improve your IELTS diagrams. You need to fill in the gaps in the paragraph below with the appropriate article (a / an / the / nothing) to match the noun given. These are the most common mistakes that students make with IELTS diagram descriptions. Articles are one of the main reasons people get a low score in Grammar.
The diagram below shows how hydro-electric power is generated.
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Grammar Exercise for IELTS Diagrams
Decide if the noun in brackets should have a, the or no article.
Example
(1) ……..(Electricity) is generated by (2) ………..(water) passing through(3) ………….(turbine).
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- Electricity (no article)
- water (no article)
- a turbine (we must use an article here as this is a countable noun and we are introducing it for the first time)
Diagram Exercise: Questions 1-10
It can be seen that (1) ……………………(evaporation) is caused by (2) ………………….(sun’s heat) and results in (3) …………….(cloud formation) which later leads to (4) …………….. (rain). As rain falls, it is collected in (5) ………………… (reservoir) which is controlled by (6) ………….(dam). The flow of the water from (7) ……………(dam), is controlled by (8) ………….. (valve) which opens and closes to allow water to flow to (9) ………….. (turbine) below for (10) ………… (production) of electricity.
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