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Updated on November 27, 2025

A day in the life of Burglar Bill

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Imagine you are Burglar Bill and you are keeping a digital diary. Write a comment below the post describing one day in his life — the events, his thoughts and his feelings.

Find 1-2 pictures to add to the digital diary, or even record your voice to bring your diary to life! You can save your pictures or audio files on a USB stick.

Step 1

Think and discuss!

When does he get home? What does he carry in his bag? What does Burglar Bill do in the morning? What does he eat? What does he do with the things he took?

Does he meet anyone during the day? What is the weather like, and does it affect what he does?

Does anything surprising happen to him today? What problem does he face, and how does he solve it?

What does he think or worry about? What does he hope for?

What does he plan to do that night?
Step 2

Make a graphic organiser!

 

Places, Actions, Feelings, Objects from the book
Step 3

Use sentence starters, word banks, and dictionaries for support!

I walk back home early in the morning and… I feel tired because… I look at the things I bring home and… I sometimes feel… I feel happy when… I walk around the house and I see… I check my bag and I find… 

walk home, sneak / creep, make tea, eat breakfast, look around, check my bag, carry things, open a tin, sit down, fall asleep, yawn, think / wonder, feel tired

in the morning, in my house, with my bag, in the kitchen, on my chair, because I am tired, with toast and beans, with my black teapot

tired, hungry, proud, curious, worried, surprised, lonely, guilty, happy

Here is an example!

Hello, diary!

It's just after sunrise and I am going home! My bag is heavy tonight, and I feel proud of my “collections,” but also a bit nervous. I hope nobody sees me!

When I get home, I switch on my black teapot because I really want a cup of tea. While the tea is boiling, I make my breakfast: a slice of toast, some marmalade, and a bit of date-and-walnut cake.

After breakfast, I look around my house. Everything is quiet. I feel a little lonely, but at the same time I feel safe in my small home. I think about the people I "borrowed" things from tonight. Maybe they are waking up now and wondering where their things went. I feel a bit guilty, to be honest.

Now I can’t stay awake any longer. I sit in my favourite chair with my cup of tea. My eyes close, and I fall asleep. Another day — or night — of being Burglar Bill begins and ends just like that.

Goodnight… or maybe good morning!

Category: Activities, English stories lab

9 Comments on “A day in the life of Burglar Bill”

  1. Another tiring day or rather night begins. I take my bag and get ready I go to any house or building I find in front of me I steal from the smallest to the largest I find in front of me in the middle of my shift I eat my breakfast or rather my dinner or my second dinner as soon as the break is over I go mainly to banks to steal money and other valuable things as soon as it gets dark on the way home I look at what valuable things I stole today when I get home I get a cup of coffee and go to my bed I turn on the TV and fall asleep

  2. Hi, Telemachus! Your effort is remarkable. However, some parts do not make much sense and they sound as if they are automatically translated from Greek. Also, we know that Burglar Bill does not rob banks. As we said in class, it doesn’t matter if you write only a few sentences as long as they are yours and things you can say yourself in English.

  3. Hello diary,

    I’m coming back home, my bag isn’t very heavy, but I don’t care because nobody has seen me.

    When I got into my house and started eating, I heard a noise coming from my bag and I felt very nervous and scared. When I opened my bag. I saw that there wasn’t anything inside. I felt very scared because the things that I had stolen weren’t there. Suddenly, I saw a small baby with a black mask over its eyes taking the stolen things and escaping.

    I let it go because some police officers were in my neighbourhood.

    After that, I felt proud of myself because I left the baby take the thing back to its family.

  4. Hello diary,

    Today was a terrible day because something very unexpected happened.
    Well, my day started as usual. I woke up, took my sack, put on my black mask and headed off to work stealing things.
    But when I left my house I saw police cars and police officers everywhere.
    I tried to hide because you could tell from my outfit that I was a burglar.
    No matter what I did, the police was everywhere so they caught me.
    While I was in the police car, I saw a massive plane crash. It looks that was the reason why the place was full of police officers.
    Now I am stuck in jail crying all day.Hope I get out soon.

  5. I leave home early in the evening on foot, to break into houses and steal things. I carry my sack and put on a black mask. When morning comes, I go back home, to drink a cup of tea, then go to bed and sleep.

  7. Hi diary,
    this was a difficult night for me, because I was lateat one house and I didn’t watch the clock. When the town clock struck five I ran to my house with my heavy sack.
    Then, I ate a slice of bread with honey and drank a cup of chocolate. After that I sat at my sofa and was looking my stolen things.
    Suddenly I saw a strange man from my window, so I was hidden at the back of my sofa and I was waiting without to breathe.
    After some time I went out at the garden and looked at my flowers. Two hours later I got inside my home and went to sleep in my bed.

    See you soon

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