Section 5 / Lesson 3 - Articles (a, an or the)
Below you will find questions to practice describing locations of places when describing a map in your IELTS Writing Task One. Using the study notes and the class video, you should be able to answer these questions to practice the language, and then be able to use the language in your IELTS writing test. The answers to all the questions are available to Patreon supporters as a means to support this website and Youtube Channel. Please find them here.
Describing Locations
Add 'a', 'an', 'the', or ' ' (no article) to the gaps.
​
On 1. ________ main road to the west of the river, 2. ________ residential area was quite small in 2008. This was expanded with two large apartment buildings, and 3. ________ new road was built to allow for the construction of more housing. Behind this, 4. ________ grass area, which used to have 5. ________ playground, was renovated into 6. ________ new sports facilities with 7. ________ running track and 8. ________ sports field.
​
On the other side of the river, 9. ________ school was extended and 10. ________ old local shop has been converted into a supermarket with 11. ________ new car park to the south of the building. Next to this, the industrial area was enlarged with
12. ________ new factories. By 2018, the old stage in the park opposite this was removed, and a new playground was built in its place.
