用英语记日记是提高英语写作技能的有效方法之一。与其他写作形式相比，它短小，省时。它能帮助我们培养用英语思考的习惯。如果我们坚持这样做，渐渐地我们就学会了用英语来表达我们的思想。
Working for my parents
Today,I still went to my mother's office.My mother was very busy as well as my father.They always live in Beijing.They must get up early.Because they will manage the factory.So I know they are very laborious.I should save my money.Although I cant do something useful,but I think I should share the work with them.I am one of my family member.In the future,I will take a job and work.It's time for me to begin to learn how to work.
翻译
今天，我还去了我母亲的办公室，我的母亲和我的父亲很忙。他们一直生活在北京。他们必须早起。因为他们将负责管理工厂。所以我知道他们很辛苦。我要救我的钱。虽然我不能做一些有用的东西，但我认为我应该与他们分享工作。我对我的家庭成员之一。在未来，我会找到一份工作。它的时候，我开始学习如何工作。
Red bayberries 杨梅
July 16
It is a special day today. My mother sent one hundred basket of red bayberries(杨梅). I like to eat red bayberries. It tastes nice. When they arrived in Shanghai, they were still fresh. But most of them would be sent to my mother’s business friends. I chose the best basket of red bayberries to eat. I put the rest in my refrigerator. Red bayberry is my hometown’s special product. It is well-known in china. Many people like to eat it.
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7月16日
今天是一个特殊的日子。我的母亲定了一百篮杨梅。我喜欢吃红色杨梅。它的味道不错。当他们抵达上海，他们仍记忆犹新。但其中大部分将被发送到我母亲的商界朋友。我选择红色杨梅的最佳的篮子吃。我把他们放在我的冰箱里。杨梅是我的家乡的特殊产品。这是在中国众所周知的。很多人都喜欢吃它。
About time
Today I found time was a cruel thing. Whatever man is, time always goes on.It won't stay to wait for somebody. You can't use anything to exchange time. Time is also a fair thing. Although you have a lot of money or you enjoy high reputation, time won't leave them more. Today I found I hadn't enough time. Although I have 50-day holiday, but I found I had a lot of things to do. I had a lot of homework to do and I had something necessary to do.
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival， often known as Tuen Ng Festival or Duan Wu Festival， is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.[citation needed] It has since been celebrated， in various ways， in other parts of East Asia as well， most notably Korea.
The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear， but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people， knowing him to be a good man， decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating Qu's body. They also sat on dragon boats， and tried to scare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic， Duan Wu was also celebrated as "Poets' Day"， due to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal renown.
Today， people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.