This lesson is about how to answer diagram label completion questions in the Reading section of the test.
What does this type of question look like?
Questions 6 – 8
Label the tunnels on the diagram below using words from the box.
Write your answers in boxes 6-8 on your answer sheet.
Activity
Discuss with your partner the following questions
What do I have to write in the answer sheet?
You will write the label which correctly identifies the numbered feature on the chart. There will be more labels than features.
What am I being tested on?
This type of question tests your ability to understand a detailed description, and to relate it to information presented in the form of a diagram.
How should I approach this question?
- Carefully read all the text accompanying the diagram and identify the key words. Think of possible synonyms.
- Scan through the text to find the section which describes the feature in the diagram. The answers will probably come from a single section, although the answers may not appear in the same order as the questions.
- Pay particular attention to words and phrases relating to physical description and location, both in the diagram and in the text. For example, here is the section of the text which describes this diagram:
- Most species burrow into the soil and bury dung in tunnels directly underneath the pats, which are hollowed out from within. Some large species originating from France excavate tunnels to a depth of approximately 30 cm below the dung pat. These beetles make sausage-shaped brood chambers along the tunnels. The shallowest tunnels belong to a much smaller Spanish species that buries dung in chambers that hang like fruit from the branches of a pear tree. South African beetles dig narrow tunnels of approximately 20 cm below the surface of the pat.
Activity
Carefully read the passage and identify all the words which relate to physical description and location. Discuss these with your partner. Can you now answer the question? Click here to access the reading passage.