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1. Writing a diary to help your English
How could writing a diary help you? Do you
need to practice tenses, linking words, using new vocabulary? How about
articles, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, punctuation? Paragraphs? Of
course you do. Writing helps consolidate learning and with a diary, you can
choose to focus on specific areas you need. Also, I believe a diary can
provide a link between accuracy and fluency as you’re writing your
thoughts in spoken-English style, but you have time to think about the
language you’re using.
Look at this diary entry:
Diary entry Tuesday 11 November
Today, I got up early, so I’m absolutely exhausted. I had breakfast: two
slices of cold toast and a disgusting coffee, then I left the house at 8
o’clock still feeling half asleep. Honestly, London’s killing me!
It was raining on the way to school, so, as a result I got soaked and by
the time I reached school, I was sneezing. Anyway, I arrived at 8.45 and
looked over my homework before class. I’m still having problems with
using the present perfect accurately, but I learned 5 new body parts

2. yesterday including the names of all the fingers (thumb, index finger,
middle finger, ring finger and little finger), which I’m really happy
about.
Lessons were great as usual but it’s hard to concentrate
sometimes because of that really good-looking girl in my class.
After school, we went on the social programme trip. It was the pub and I
chatted to the good-looking girl. I think I’ll go on Saturday’s trip if she
goes too!
Does it use the language features mentioned above? Look, for example at
the tenses. Does it use past, present and future tenses?
Now look at the highlighted sections. Without them it would be a rather
boring description of the facts, but these phrases add value. They link
ideas, show cause and effect, comment, give structure and add interesting
detail.
So why not give it a try? Here are some of my top tips for approaching your
exciting new diary.
 Imagine you have an audience; a friend, NOT a teacher!
 Why am I telling you this?
 Would the reader appreciate detail?
 How did I feel?
 Is the sequence of events clear?

3.  Remember, a higher level writer or speaker adds value to the facts using
the above ideas.
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