Key Idea: Personal texts are written to people you know or to your own readers: an informal email, a blog, a diary and a social media post. Each one has its own parts and its own tone.
Informal email/letter
- Start: "Hi …!" or "Dear Mum,"
- Middle: your news, an invitation or a question
- End: "Take care," or "Big hug," and your name
- Tone: warm and chatty, with contractions (I'm, you'll) and questions back to the reader
- Do the whole task: if it says tell and invite, do both.
Blog
- Catchy title — Grab attention from the first line.
- Hook — Draw your readers in and introduce the topic.
- Body — Share your experience or opinion in a personal voice.
- Question to readers — Ask your readers what they think.
- Upbeat close — End on a positive, friendly note: "See you next time!"
Many readers, informal but public: talk to "you".
Personal diary
- You write for yourself, in the first person: I, me, my, myself.
- Parts: the date, "Dear diary,", what happened, your feelings, what comes next.
- Never skip the date or your reflection.
Social media post
- Parts: hook, message, call to action, hashtags
- Short, lively sentences to your followers. No formal greeting or sign-off.
- Know your purpose: inviting, raising awareness or sharing.
- Give what, when and where clearly and briefly.
Ask who will read it. A friend, the public, only you or your followers: the answer sets the parts and the tone.
Which text type is written only for yourself? The personal diary.
What does a blog ask its readers near the end? What they think about the topic.
What comes after the hook and the message in a post? A call to action, then hashtags.
The task says: tell your friend your news and invite them. What do you need? Both parts: the news AND the invitation.
Which pronoun runs through a diary entry? "I": it is personal and private.