The document provides instructions for students to analyze excerpts from the diary of Bridget Jones. It outlines activities for students to complete in groups: 1) Analyze diary excerpts and answer questions to understand Bridget Jones's personality and emotions. 2) Groups will report their findings to the class and take additional notes on Bridget Jones's character. 3) Students will describe Bridget Jones's personality in a few words based on what they learned. The document then discusses elements of diary writing like expressing feelings through swearing or listing hates, and the style of first person narrative and repetition. Students will scan another excerpt analyzing these elements.

1. Writing a diary
You are going to learn how to write a
diary in 4 steps and then write your
own…

2. Do you know what a diary is ?
 A diary, or journal, is a
permanent personal record that
is kept of events, thoughts, and
ideas associated with an
individual.

3. What can you guess about the
content of the book presented
here ?

4. Group work
 Your teacher will give you excerpts from
Bridget Jones’s Diary, answer the
questions on the worksheet that will be
handed to you(20mn).You will then report
to the class. You may use a dictionary to
help you
 Gp 1:bartholomé/marlène/melissa
Du./camille
 Gp 2:dorian/clarisse/aitana/ludivine
 Gp 3:laurine/romain/audrey/marie
 Gp 4:florian/rémi/benoit/doris
 Gp 5:marion/lucas/karine/melissa
 Gp 6 : jeanne-claire/Bertrand/ lucie/Paul

5. Group presentation
 You will have 10mn to recap and
finish your work
 One person of each group will report
to the class.
 All the other students will have to
complete a short paper on the hero’s
personal details, moods(or feelings),
thoughts
 each of you will have to make a
short account on Bridget’s
personality and life. (120 words)

6.  While listening to the other
groups, note the new details
about Bridget’s personality
and emotions (worksheet 2)
 As a conclusion, how would
you describe her personality
in a few words

7. Correction of the summary
 Bridget Jones is a young woman in her
thirties. She smokes quite a lot and enjoy
food. She has a difficult relationship with
her parents, especially her mother.
 She makes a big fuss* about little details
sometimes. She is a « drama queen »*
 Vocabulary toolbox:
 To make a fuss about sthg: To trouble or worry
over trifles or unimportant things
 Drama queen : An overly dramatic person.

8. Diary : writing techniques
 What facts do you find in a diary
concerning …
 Personal details :
 Setting :Time and place

9. Diary : writing techniques
 A diary is often compared to a internal
monologue that a person writes for
himself or herself. It is usually kept
secret.
 Knowing that, how could a diary writer
express his/her feelings?
 Swearing, list of things he/she hates or
emotions
 What style is then used?
 Repetition of words or sentences/ elliptic
sentences/ modal verbs to express
emotions or opinions / first person
narrative/ exclamative sentences

10. Scanning a diary excerpt
 Your teacher will give you a new extract
from B Jones’s diary and a worksheet. In
pairs, you will have to pick out the elements
discussed previously (20 mn):
 Elliptic sentences
 modal verbs to express emotions or
opinions
 first person narrative
 exclamative sentences
 Repetition of words or sentences
 You will discuss your findings with the class

11. Work to do
 For the group of students who goes to
London: write a diary (3 entries of 100
words each) telling about your arrival in
your host family (day1: entry 1), a special
day with the group in London (entry2), and
the trip back to France on the bus (entry 3)
 For the group who stays in Pardailhan ,
you will have to write a similar diary (3
days) telling us about your boring life at
school without your friends.

12. Watch BJ