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 or correct form of the noun (a / an / the / nothing / plural). These are the most common mistakes that students make with IELTS diagram descriptions.
The diagram below shows how hydro-electric power is generated.
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Questions 1-10
This exercise is to develop accuracy with grammar. Complete the paragraph below by either adding an article (a/an/the/nothing) or by having a plural noun. Here is an example to help you understand :
Example
(1) ……..(Electricity) is generated by (2) ………..(water) passing through(3) ………….(turbine). Answers
- Electricity (no article and no plural)
- water (no article and no plural)
- 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
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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