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Hi there, I'm Mr. Buckingham, and it's so good to see you here for today's lesson.

Today, we're going to be finishing writing our diary entry in the role as Juliet, describing her devastation on learning that Romeo is a Montague and giving her dramatic update after the balcony scene.

This is going to be a great chance for us to do some dramatic, emotional writing.

So let's make a start.

Today's lesson is called "Writing the Second Half of Juliet's Diary Entry," and it comes from a unit called Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Diary and Narrative Writing.

By the end of today's lesson, you will have written the second half of Juliet's imagined diary entry after meeting Romeo, using a range of linguistic features and cohesive devices.

And for this lesson, you will want to have with you the plan that we composed in a previous lesson.

If you're ready, let's begin.

Here are our keywords for today's lesson.

And here's our lesson outline for today.

We're going to start off by spending some time preparing to write, then we'll move on to writing the third paragraph, and then the final paragraph of our diary entry.

So as you know, we're going to be writing two diary entries for Juliet.

We have Entry 1, which is written at home after the ball has ended, after the Capulet ball, and Entry 2, which is written after the balcony scene.

So that's the update to the original diary entry.

Now we've already written two paragraphs of Entry 1, we wrote paragraph 1 saying, "How we feel now sitting at home after the ball." And Paragraph 2, describing the events of meeting Romeo at the ball.

Today we're going to begin by writing the final paragraph of Entry 1, which is Paragraph 3, "Learning that Romeo is a Montague." So we're telling those events from the ball, and then we're going to write Entry 2, that's just one paragraph written after the balcony scene, giving that update to include what happened on the balcony.

So two paragraphs, the end of Entry 1, as Paragraph 3, and then Entry 2, as Paragraph 4.

So in Paragraph 3, Juliet will be explaining how she found out that Romeo was a Montague at the ball.

And because Juliet's retelling events here from the ball, she's mostly going to be using the past tense, she's describing past events, and she'll describe both events and her emotions in response to them.

How did she feel when she learned those things? And then in Paragraph 4, Juliet is, of course, writing about how she feels after that scene on the balcony.

So here, she's mostly going to be using the past tense to retell the events that happened on the balcony.

And then she's likely to use the present tense to describe her emotions as she writes, thinking about getting married the next day, her excitement about that future event as well.

So here's part of Romeo's diary entry for the same night, which parts are in the past tense, and which are in the present tense? And why are they in those tenses? Pause the video and have a think.

well done, good job.

Hopefully, you noticed there are two different sections.

We've got the first section here, which is written in the present tense because here Romeo is saying how he feels at this moment.

"It feels like I'm living in a dream," at this moment.

And here we see Romeo writing in the past tense because he's describing the events that led up to the present moment.

So he started in the present tense saying, how he feels his emotions right now, in the present tense, then he went back and told the events in the past tense that led up to this moment.

So let's just check we're really clear on what we're writing today.

What events will Juliet be describing in each paragraph? Don't worry about her emotions for now, which events will she talk about in each of these two paragraphs? Paragraph 3, which is the end of that first entry, written after the ball, and Paragraph 4, which is the updated paragraph after the balcony scene, which events will each cover? Pause the video and have a think.

Well done, great job.

So in Paragraph 3, she's going to describe "Sending the Nurse to find out who the man she kissed was, and "Discovering that he was a Montague." And then in paragraph 4, she's going to describe, "Speaking on the balcony, seeing Romeo down there below, and then them both confessing their love to each other and agreeing to marry." So we've got some events in each paragraph, and, of course, we'll add in Juliet's emotional responses to those events as well.

So we've talked about events, now let's discuss emotions, the other really key part of a diary entry.

How will the emotions Juliet describes be different in Paragraph 3 and in Paragraph 4? Pause the video and have a think.

Well done, good thinking.

So in Paragraph 3, Juliet's probably going to be describing negative emotions because she's describing the disappointment she feels when she discovers that the man she loves is a Montagu.

As we know, she says, "My only love sprung from my only hate." She's got this disappointment around the fact that she's fallen in love with someone, and she's realised too late that he's a Montague.

And then in Paragraph 4, Juliet's going to be describing mostly positive emotions.

She'll describe her delight at Romeo coming to find her, and her excitement at being married tomorrow.

But you might decide that she's still a little nervous about what her family might think.

So it might not be pure happiness, there might be a little bit of anxiety mixed in there as well.

Really good ideas.

Let's try and include all those emotions in our writing.

So as you know, a diary will make use of certain linguistic features that give it a really personal tone, which is appropriate to a diary entry.

So we might see some hyperbole, where we make exaggerated statements, such as, "I'll never be happier than I am right now!" We might see rhetorical questions, where we're asking a question that doesn't demand an answer, such as, "How will I ever sleep when I'm so excited?" We might see an exclamation sentence starting with "what" or "how," and showing a strong emotion and ending with an exclamation mark like this one, "What a joyful moment this is!" And we might see some of Juliet's internal thoughts, the things we're thinking about the event in the diary, for instance, "I knew then that there was no way we could be together." So using all of these, helps to give our diary that appropriate, personal tone.

So true or false, these linguistic features help to give a diary and informal tone? Pause the video and have a think.

Well done, good job, it's true.

Now can you justify the answer, which is the best justification? Pause the video and decide.

Well done, good job, it's A, isn't it? So these linguistic features help to make our diary sound personal, and remember, it's not written for others to read, it's written for us, the writer to read only.

So we're going to try and give it that personal tone using those syn features.

So we'll also want to use a range of cohesive devices to connect our ideas together.

So we might use an adverbial complex sentence like this one.

"When my Nurse came back, she informed me that the man was a Montague." We might use a non-finite "ing' complex sentence, like this one, "My Nurse hurried back, informing me that the charming man was a Montague," informing is our verb in its "ing" form there, starting a non-finite 'ing" clause.

We might use a compound sentence using and, or but, or, or.

"My Nurse came back quickly and she informed me that the man was, in fact, a Montague." And we might use lots of fronted adverbials of time.

We could say, "Before long, my Nurse hurried back.

Immediately, she blurted out the news." So all of these cohesive devices help to connect ideas together, and show the relationship between them.

Now here's a note from my plan, giving two ideas that I related.

"Asked Nurse to find out who he was, a Montague.

So I could connect these ideas with a range of different cohesive devices.

I could say this, "When I got back from my tiresome chat with Mother, I asked Nurse to find out who the charming man was.

She soon returned and she told me the terrible news.

He was a Montague." So which cohesive devices have I used to connect these ideas together? Well, I've used "When," to start an adverbial complex sentence there, I've got, "and" to create a compound sentence.

And I've got that ellipsis, the three dots, to show that moment of tension, where I'm revealing the fact that Romeo's a Montague.

You could have done it in lots of different ways as well.

So how could you use different cohesive devices to connect these ideas in this note from my plan? I've got "completely devastated," "heart dropped," "gasped." You might want to use more than one sentence here, but see which cohesive devices you can use to connect these ideas together, have a go.

Well done, great ideas.

So there are lots of different ways you could do this, here's just a few.

I could say, "Instantly, I felt completely devastated.

My heart dropped like a stone and I let out a shallow gasp." I've got there a fronted adverbial of time, "Instantly," and a compound sentence using, "and." I could do it like this instead.

"As the name 'Montague' left my Nurse's lips, my heart dropped.

Gasping for breath, I felt completely devastated.

There I've got an adverbial complex sentence using, "as," and I got, "gasping for breath," as my non-finite "ing" clause there.

And we can choose any cohesive devices that connect our ideas in a logical way.

No one is better than any other, we use the one which is right for the situation we're in.

So let's do our first task for this lesson.

Which linguistic features and cohesive devices can you spot in this example? So think about all those linguistic features and cohesive devices we discussed, and see which ones you can find in my diary entry here.

Pause the video and have a go.

Well done, fantastic job.

So hopefully, you spotted, first of all, that we've covered events as we often do in a diary.

"I went to the Capulet orchard," and we've got our emotions, for instance, "tingling with excitement." We've also got some of our linguistic features like hyperbole, "the greatest night of my life.

." Exclamation sentences, like, "How wonderful it was to hear!" I've got internal thoughts like, "I knew I had to speak to her,' and an adverbial complex sentence as a cohesive device, "As I listen," and a fronted adverbial of time as well, where I've got, "All of a sudden." So I've used some linguistic features and some cohesive devices, and I've got, most important of all, my events, and the emotions I felt in response to them.

Really well done for spotting this.

So we spent some time preparing to write, let's begin writing the third paragraph.

So we are ready to write the third paragraph, where Juliet tells us her reaction to finding out Romeo's identity.

Here's an example of how your plan might look for this section.

I have got "asked Nurse to find out who he was, a Montague.

Completely devastated, heart dropped, gasped, my only love from my only hate." I've stolen that from the original play, and, "knew it was too late, I was already in love." And remember, we're going to be mostly writing in the past tense in this paragraph, telling our reader what happened at the ball, and how we felt when we discovered Romeo was a Montague.

So what emotions do we want to show Juliet feeling during this paragraph? Pause the video and choose the words which are most appropriate.

Well done, good job.

So hopefully, you spotted that it's not going to be A, we're not going to believe at this point that we're going to be with Romeo soon, it's gonna feel impossible.

Yes, we will have B, despair that she might not be able to be with Romeo because of that feud.

We will have C.

She does believe she's already in love with Romeo, and we won't have C, we don't see in the play anger at the Nurse for telling her Romeo's name.

She knows that the Nurse was just doing what she'd asked her to do.

So those two emotions, despair and belief that she's in love, are going to be really important for this paragraph, good job.

So what ideas can you come up with for these linguistic features in this paragraph? Pause the video and look at your plan, and see which linguistic features you might want to use at different points in this paragraph, have a think.

Well done, great thinking, that's gonna really help you when you come to write, or an exclamation sentence, You might have thought of, "How horrified I was when Nurse told me! Or, "What a shock it was to hear! Notice how both of those are in the past tense as well.

Four rhetorical questions you might have thought of, "How is it possible that my only love had sprung for my only hate?" So I've taken that line and I've made it a question.

For a hyperbole, I went with, "For several moments, I didn't even breathe because I was so shocked." So I'm kind of exaggerating what actually happened for effect there, and for internal thoughts I went for, "I knew," there's my word that shows us the thought, "Instantly, that there was no way we could possibly be together." So all of these will help to give my diary that really personal tone.

Well done, for your great ideas there.

Now we have said that most of this paragraph will be in the past tense because it's describing things that happened at the ball and how we felt about them in the past at that time.

But we will want to finish this paragraph with a short section in the present tense, to show how Juliet feels now.

Because remember, she's finishing up her diary entry at this point, isn't she? So how does she feel towards Romeo now at this precise moment? And does she want to see him again? So what might you choose to finish this paragraph? Can you think of a sentence in the present tense, to show how Juliet's feeling right now, as she closes off Entry 1 of her diary? 'Cause remember, she doesn't know at this point that he's going to be completing another update later in the night.

Pause the video and think how you might complete this diary entry, with a sentence in the present tense, showing how Juliet feels right now.

Well done, great thinking.

Here are some ideas.

You could say, "I can't bear to think of the word 'Montague' any longer, but I can't get this man out of my head!" I could say, "His very name turns my stomach, but it's too late.

I'm in love! I need to find some way to see him again, but it's impossible." Or, "How can I find a way to see him again?" So all of those options show Juliet finishing this diary entry, feeling that kind of despair and longing for Romeo that we've already described.

Really well done for your thoughts.

Now let's look at the success criteria for today's writing.

It says, "I've shown the events and emotions experienced by Juliet.

I've included a range of cohesive devices to connect ideas.

I heave included linguistic features appropriate to a diary, such as exclamation sentences, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, and internal thoughts.

And I've used the past or the present tense as appropriate." And, of course, we can take these off as we write.

So now I want you to try and write this paragraph, and you can use the same techniques you used when you wrote the previous paragraph in the previous lesson.

Of course, use your success criteria and your plan to write.

and think or say each sentence before you write it, and make sure you check back the sentences that you've written.

Pause the video and have a go at writing this third paragraph.

Well done, fantastic effort.

Here's an example of how this paragraph might look.

I've written, "As soon as my mother released me from her clutches, I realised the handsome stranger had left! I knew I had to find him.

Immediately, I sent my Nurse to chase him down.

Before long, she returned with a terrible answer.

He was a Montague! I had to squash down a gasp.

How could I ever be with this man? For several moments, I could barely breathe and I felt desolate.

I knew we could never be together.

What a terrible thing it was to hear! Even now, his very name turns my stomach, but it's too late.

I'm in love." So having met our success criteria there, yes, we've got lots of events and emotions.

For instance, we had the nurse "returned" as an event and I felt "desolate," as an emotion.

We've got lots of cohesive devices, for instance, this fronted adverbial of time, "Immediately," and "but," for a compound sentence.

Lots of these linguistic features as well, for instance, "realised" to show an internal thought, this rhetorical question here, and an exclamation sentence, and I've used the appropriate tense, mostly the past tense here to describe those events and how I felt.

But finishing with these sentences in the present tense to finish off this entry with how I'm feeling about Romeo, right now in this moment.

Really well done for finishing your third paragraph so well.

So now it's time to write the final paragraph, the exciting update on Juliet's situation.

So we've now written the third paragraph of Juliet's diary, as you know, we've written about learning that Romeos a Montague.

So we're now ready for Paragraph 4, an update to include what happened on the balcony.

So what's going to be different about this final paragraph compared to the ones that have come before? Pause the video and have a check with the person next to you or a thing on your own.

Well done, great ideas.

So first of all, this is an update, isn't it, to the diary? This is our secondary entry, Entry 2, we're updating based on the events on the balcony.

So we're going to be describing the past tense, what happened on the balcony, and then in the present tense, what we're feeling right now.

So as we've said, this paragraph focuses on the events that happened on the balcony, and Juliet's emotions in response to them.

So here's how your plan might look for this section.

I've got, "Something incredible has happened.

Romeo came to garden, we spoke for hours, agreed to marry!" And then I've written, "heart is racing, can hardly think, completely ecstatic, can't believe we're going to be together." And finally, "Tomorrow will be the best day of my life!" So notice how we start in the past tense, describing the events, and then we move to the present tense, and I've actually finished off here by talking about the future, what's going to happen tomorrow, and how I'm going to feel about that in the morning.

Let's check our understanding, true or false? Within one paragraph of writing, all the verbs should be in the same tense.

Pause the video and have a think.

Well done, you're right, that is false.

What's the best justification? Pause the video and decide.

Well done, good thinking, it's B, you need to choose the tense for each verb, depending on whether you're referring to a past or a present idea.

And they might be mixed up within one paragraph, you've got to choose what is right for the verb that you're using at that moment.

So think about that carefully when you come to write.

So in this final paragraph, we're gonna try and include three main things.

We're going to describe our current feelings, describe our future hopes, and describe what happened on the balcony.

So can you match up those labels on the right with my plan notes on the left, to see where I've hit those different categories of idea within my plan notes? Pause the video and have a try.

Well done, so A, it's definitely describing what happened on the balcony, isn't it? "We spoke for hours, and we agreed to marry." For B, I've got my current feelings, "my heart's racing, I'm feeling ecstatic." And C, I've got my future hopes.

I'm saying that, "Tomorrow is going to be the best day of my life." So we're going to try and include all of those three things within this diary entry.

So just like we did before, let's have a go at coming up with some ideas for linguistic features that we could use in this paragraph.

Pause the video, and see what ideas you can come up with.

Well done, great job.

So for your exclamation sentences, you could have said, "How wonderful it is to be in love!" That's the present tense.

Or, "What a thrill it was to see him there." That's the past tense.

So both good work.

for a rhetorical question I could say, "How will I ever sleep tonight with these thoughts of love buzzing in my head?" Again, that's in the present tense.

For hyperbole, I could say, "As long as I live, I will never experience joy as powerful as this!" And that's actually looking to the future as well, isn't it? And there, for my internal thoughts, I could say, "Immediately, I realised that he felt exactly as I did!" So that's the past tense, I'm describing what happened on the balcony and how I felt at that moment.

Really well done for your ideas there, it's gonna really help you when we come to write in a moment.

So now let me show you how to write this paragraph.

Okay, so Juliet's just come back from the balcony and she's going to update her diary with the new information.

So I'm going to start off by giving a short sentence to explain that something incredible has happened.

So I'm going to start off just like that.

I'm going to say, "Something," hmm, what do you think amazing or wonderful? Yeah, I think it'll go for wonderful.

And then should it be happened or has happened? Yeah, that's right.

"Something wonderful has happened," is correct.

Okay, and I'm just going to leave it like that as a short opening sentence with an exclamation mark to show my reader that Juliet's saying, "Wow, something incredible has just gone on." And then I want to explain that she's right now writing the diary, and how she's feeling at this moment, or what she's thinking.

So I'm going to say, "Sitting here now." So she's now maybe back at her desk or in bed, and she's writing in her diary.

So I've got a non-finite "ing" clause there, followed by a comma.

"Sitting here now," what am I thinking? Well, I might say, "I can hardly believe." What could I hardly believe? "I can hardly believe this just happened.

"I can hardly believe," Oh yeah, I like that.

"It was real," would be good, wouldn't it? "So I can hardly believe it was real.

." And then I'm going to, I think finish that sentence with ellipsis to show she's kind of trailing off that thought.

And I haven't yet revealed to my reader what that thing was.

So now I'm going to switch back to telling the events that have happened.

So when did she first see Romeo? That's when she was talking to herself on the balcony.

So I think I'll start with the fronted adverbial of time.

I'm going to say, "Just after midnight." So I'm going to imagine, she got back from the Capulet ball, and then she was on the balcony talking to herself.

Okay, so she's going back now to tell the events that have happened.

So what was she doing? Well, she was on the balcony, wasn't she? And she was talking to herself about Romeo and wishing that they could be together.

So I think I'm going to say, "Just after midnight I was," hmm, I could say walking on the balcony.

Standing on the balcony.

But to show a bit of the worry and the tension she was feeling, I think I might go for something like "pacing." So, "I was pacing on my balcony," and I was talking, wasn't I? So I go to use a compound sentence here with, and, and I'm gonna say, "and," what else was I doing? "I was wishing," what was she wishing? Yeah, "I was wishing Romeo and I could be together." Okay, let's check back that sentence.

"Just after midnight I was pacing on my balcony and I was wishing Romeo and I could be together." Yeah, I like that a lot.

So now I want to say what happened next, which is that she saw or heard Romeo.

So I'm going to try and cover that really fast and I'm going to use another fronted adverbial of time, I'm going to use, "Suddenly I could have used, just then, or at that moment, and I could say, "I heard him beneath me." Or I could say, "There he was beneath me, or there he was below me." I think I'll give for that last one.

"So suddenly, there he was below me." Now I could have broken it down a bit more, couldn't I? But I can't describe every single event in huge detail here because there's so much detail, so I'm just going to keep it really simple.

And then I think I'm going to try and use one of my linguistic features of a diary, which is an exclamation.

So how did I feel at that moment? "I was very happy.

I was, or I could use that for a vocabulary word, ecstatic, couldn't I? So I could say, "How ecstatic," yeah, "How ecstatic I felt," that would be really good.

So how ecstatic I was, but I think I prefer "felt." "So how ec," oh, sorry, a spelling mistake there.

So I would say, "How ecstatic I felt!" So I've done an exclamation, one of these linguistic features, which is appropriate for a diary.

And then I want to explain why he'd come here.

So I could say, "He had come here," or, "He had come," yeah, "to find me," that would be good.

So I could say, "He had come to find me." Hmm, what conjunction will help us to show why? Yeah, "because," so, "He had come to find me because," well, how did Romeo feel? Yeah, the same way as I did.

So "Because he felt," I could say the same way.

Or I could say, yeah, "exactly," I could say, "He felt exactly as I did." And that sentence really helps me to jump over all the part where they're kind of working out how they both feel.

So, then what happens next? The main point of what happens is that proposal of marriage.

Now that didn't happen instantly, did it? They talked for a long time.

So I'm going to use another fronted adverbial of time, "After," how long, many minutes? So, I think it was a few hours, probably, wasn't it? So I could say, "After hours of talking," I could say hours of, yeah, "Conversation, that would be good.

So, "After hours of conversation," what did they do? Yeah, they agreed to get married.

So I could say, "We agreed to marry.

." And when are they gonna get married? Yeah, it's tomorrow.

So I think I'm going to use an ellipsis there, and then, write, "tomorrow," just to show that that is a slightly shocking thing, isn't it? "So after many hours of conversation, we agreed to marry.

tomorrow!" Okay, so I've told the events, now I want to go back now, to telling my emotions now, in response to those events.

So I'm going to switch now, to the present tense.

So let's think of some bodily things that are going to be happening, if you're very excited and happy.

Yeah, I could have my pulse racing, couldn't I? So I think I'll say that, So I'm going to say, "My pulse is racing." So "is racing," present tense.

And then I think I'll give a thought, "and I," what am I thinking? Ah, yeah, I could say, "and I know" So that's a way of showing thinking.

"I know I will never sleep tonight." So we're kind of showing both emotion and a thought there, aren't we? Okay, so now I want to keep going with those emotions by showing more of her feelings in this moment than her thoughts.

So I think I wanna show this real happiness.

So I'm going to say, "I feel as if," or I could do a bit of hyperbole as well, couldn't I? One of those other linguistic features, like I really exaggerate.

I'm gonna say, "I feel as if my heart might," what? Yeah, well done.

I could say, "my heart might explode." I could say, "explode with happiness." Or, I could say, "explode with.

." yeah, I could say, "ecstasy, but I've used, "ecstatic." So I think I'll say, "explode with joy." Okay, and then I think I want to finish this entry with maybe a rhetorical question, another of those linguistic features of a diary.

So, hmm, I could say, "how could," or "how is it possible?" Yeah, I want to show that I'm amazed that this has actually happened, that this thing I was hoping for, just a few hours ago has finally come true.

So I might say, "How is it possible," that what? Yeah, nice, well done.

"How is it possible that all my dreams have come true?" I could even say, "have come true so quickly?" and that is a question.

So I'll finish it with a question mark.

Okay, let's read it through, ready? Read with me.

"Something wonderful has happened! Sitting here now, I can hardly believe it was real.

Just after midnight, I was pacing on my balcony and I was wishing Romeo and I could be together.

Suddenly, there he was below me! How ecstatic I felt! He had come to find me because he felt exactly as I did.

After hours of conversation, we agreed to marry.

tomorrow! My pulse is racing and I know I will never sleep tonight.

I feel as if my heart might explode with joy.

How is it possible that all my treatments have come true so quickly?" So let's check off our success criteria.

We've definitely shown some events, we've said that we are "sitting" here, and we're describing events, all that happened in the past.

So we've done that, and we've shown our emotions in the present here, at the bottom here.

We've used lots of cohesive devices, there are lots of fronted adverbials of time.

I've got a non-finite "ing" clause here.

I've got an adverbial complex sentence here with "because," and I've used lots of these linguistic features.

For instance, I had this exclamation sentence, I had my hyperbole here, "I feel as my heart might explode," and my rhetorical question, as well as some internal thoughts, like, I know I will never sleep," and I've used the appropriate tense, by starting in a past tense to tell the events, and then go to the present tense to say how I'm feeling in the moment.

Okay, you've seen me do it, now it's your turn to try Write the final paragraph of your diary entry.

So really try and show off all your skills here, remembering to use your success criteria and your plan, to say or think your sentences, and to check them back once you've written them.

So let's do our very best to do a fantastic job in this final paragraph.

Pause the video and have a go.

Well done, great work.

Here's an example of how the start of that paragraph could look.

I've written, "The most incredible thing just happened! This is the best night of my entire life! A few hours ago, when I was talking to myself and my balcony, I heard a voice below.

It was Romeo! What a thrill it was to see him there! Instantly, I realised that he felt just as I did.

For hours and hours, we talked and we confessed our love for each other.

Finally, we agreed to marry.

tomorrow!" So I've got already some events and emotions here.

"Confessed" is my event.

I've got cohesive devices like "when," as an adverbial complex sentence, and finally, as a fronted adverbial of time, I've got lots of those linguistic features.

For example, some hyperbole there, an exclamation sentence, and internal thoughts, and I've used the past tense appropriately here because I'm retelling the events that happened on the balcony.

Let's look at the end of this paragraph, I've written.

"Now that he's left, my heart is racing and I can hardly even think.

I'm completely ecstatic! I can't believe that Romeo came back for me and that we're going to be together.

I know things might be difficult because my family will never accept him, but I can't turn my back on love.

Tomorrow is going to be the best day imaginable.

How glorious it will be to be Juliet Montague! How on earth will I sleep tonight?" So you probably noticed there, I still kept telling those events and emotions.

"My heart is racing," that's an event, and "ecstatic" is a great emotion word.

I've got those cohesive devices as well, I've got a compound sentence there, another adverbial complex sentence, and "but," there for a compound sentence as well.

I've also got my linguistic features.

I've got internal thoughts, a piece of hyperbole there, an exclamation sentence, and a rhetorical question.

And this time, I've mostly used the present tense because I'm describing how I feel right now, for instance, with "can't." So we've done a great job of showing both events, emotions in response to them, and given that really personal tone that's appropriate for a diary entry.

Really well done for your effort there as well, great work.

So let's summarise our learning in this lesson.

We've said that when we write a diary entry, we're refer to both events and emotions, using both past and the present tense.

And we know that we can create an appropriate tone for a diary by using linguistic features such as exclamation sentences, rhetorical questions, hyperbole, and internal thoughts, and we can connect ideas using a rance of cohesive devises including different punctuation and sentence types.

Really well done for your effort this lesson and the previous one, I hope you're pleased with the diary entry that you've produced, and I'm sure you've done a really good job of sharing those events and those emotions and given the diary the perfect tone.

Great work, and I'd love to see you again in a future lesson, goodbye!.