DIARY ENTRY

Diary entry is a record of the writer’s past. It helps a person in recollecting the day’s incidents and
happenings. It gives the writer an opportunity to analyse his acts and actions.

Language used in a diary entry can be informal but lucid and feelings should be clearly expressed. The
word limit of a diary entry is 100-120 words.

FORMAT

Place
Day
Date
Time

Body (content 1 or 2 paragraphs)

Signature (First name)

SAMPLE

You are Nikita/Nitin. Imagine that you have won the inter school table tennis tournament.
Write a diary entry about that memorable day, narrating your feeling of nervousness and how
you conquered them to win the championship.

Prayagraj

Friday

20 August 2022

9:30 pm

When I woke up this morning, I never thought that this day would be of so much happiness and
excitement. It started like any other day. I reached school early in the morning in my sports
uniform. I was both nervous and thrilled because I was going to represent my school in the inter
school table tennis championship for the first time. I shyly walked up to my sports coach, greeted
him and joined the other players. The game began and I started playing as well as I could. My
opponent was a well-trained player who had won many championships. When it was half time,
she had scored 2 points and I had scored none. I was starting to lose hope, but then I remembered
my coach’s words, ‘If you think you can, you can.’ I don’t know what happened to me or how I
regained confidence, but when we resumed the game, I clearly had an edge over her. I scored 3
points consecutively and when the game ended I had 5 points and she had 3. I couldn’t believe
that I had won. As the chief guest handed over the trophy to me, everybody was cheering and I
felt so proud and happy. The impossible had been achieved.
Nikita