Text Types: Diary Entry - Present/Past Continuous

Text type: Diary Entry

Grammar:Present & Past Continuous

As I’ve told you, what I say is not what I feel, which is why I have a reputation for being boy-crazy as well as a flirt, a smart alec and a reader of romances. The happy-go-lucky Anne laughs, gives a flippant reply, shrugs her shoulders and pretends she doesn’t giveNa darn. The quiet Anne reacts in just the opposite way. If I’m being completely honest,I’ll have to admit that it does matter to me, that I’m trying very hard to change myself, but that I’m always up against a more powerful enemy. A voice within me is sobbing, ‘You see, that’s what’s become of you. You’re surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don’t listen to the advice of your own better half.’ Believe me, I’d like to listen, but it doesn’t work, because if I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I’m not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can’t keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if … if only there were no other people in the world. Yours, Anne M. Frank Extract from The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

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Audience: Who is the intended audience of your text? How would the language used in the text need to change if the same basic message needed to becommunicated to a different audience?Context: How does the situation or setting influence the production or receptionof a text? How is the relationship between the producer and the recipient of a text reflected in language use?

Purpose: What is the purpose of your text? How do you plan your message and language use in order to achieve your goal? Meaning: What is the message that you are trying to convey? How can you use language effectively to convey your message? Variation: If you were to use a different text type to convey the same message, what should you change? If your diary entry were written in a different era, how would your use of language change?

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01 Write a diary entry of your most memorable day. It could be a day of celebration or a day when you learned something significant about yourself. To truly reflect on yourself and the event itself, you should think of a theme (a rather meaningful theme, such as self-discovery). Do not try to describe everything that happened on the day. Focus on a significant memory or occurrence of the event that provokes your reflection.