W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

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Tips for Keeping a Diary
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Ask students to add their own tips in pairs. 
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1. Be careful not to fill your entire day with appointments and meetings otherwise 
you will never be able to get to your critical tasks for the day.
2. Remember to carry over tasks that you did not manage to complete.
3. Use Friday afternoons to plan for the week ahead.
4. Record follow up tasks in your diary.
5. If you have a family or partner who needs to share diary information, it is 
a good idea to have a wall calendar in a central place where you can share 
important information. Copy this information from your master diary and transfer 
any updates on this calendar onto your master diary.
6. Write all your great ideas, dreams and goals in your diary.
7. keep track of your daily spending – most people spend more per day than 
they realize.
8. Carry it with you at all times.
9. Check it several times a day, especially at night and first thing in the morning.
10. Add new appointments straight into it.
11. Write inessential appointments in pencil, so you can make changes easily.
12. Organise entries so you can see at a glance which time is filled - to make 
sure you cannot double-book yourself.
13. Use the diary’s year-planner.
post-reading. Time 10 min.
aim: 
encouraging students to talk more about effective diary keeping.
4. 
Divide class into small groups. Ask them to discuss and make a list of 
advantages and disadvantages of keeping a diary in a group. Give examples.
possible answers:

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anvantages
disadvantages
helps to save time
reminds important meetings
difficult to carry all the time
limits time
You may wish to ask your students to make presentations of their work.