【明報專訊】Bill went hiking with his classmates yesterday. They spent some time at a camping site after walking along a footpath for an hour. However, a monkey did something and scared the group away. What happened? How should he describe the event in his diary?

◆An eventful outing﹕

˙things saw and heard 看到和聽到的東西˙

bird tweet 鳥兒啾啾的叫聲

beehive 蜂巢

picnic table 野餐桌

flowers in blossom 盛開的花朵

firefly 螢火蟲

˙equipment 裝備˙

map 地圖

digital camera 數碼相機

compass 指南針

˙emotions 情緒 ˙

excited 興奮的

energetic 精力充沛的

hopeful 有希望的

relaxed 輕鬆的

frightened感到害怕

˙activities 活動˙

picnic 野餐

hike 遠足

barbecue 燒烤

◆Examples:

1. Dear diary,

We went to a country park today. But why did nature hate me so?

2. We were joyfully having a picnic at a camping site where there were beautiful butterflies everywhere.

3. The shame of it is that chaos broke out when Eason poked at a beehive nearby with his pen.

4. Luckily nobody got injured or stung. We enjoyed our day nevertheless.

■Writing tips

A diary entry should be in simple language. Short sentences are preferred to long ones.

You should mainly use the past tense since your entry is about what you experienced on the day in question.

You should explore as far as possible the feelings you had that particular day. Don't forget to explain what caused those feelings.

It makes your diary enjoyable and interesting to use humour and ask rhetorical questions.

■English highway﹕-words and collocations

chaos

Chaos means a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess.

e.g. The sudden flood caused total chaos in the village.