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Intensive Language Week in Saalbach Hinterglemm - 4ABC

For the very first time, our 4th graders had the opportunity to spend an exciting intensive language week in Saalbach Hinterglemm from 10th to 14th October 2022. Our students enjoyed a whole week of lessons taught by engaging and motivating native-speaker teachers who supported them in refining their language skills, as well as fun sports activities and some time together with their classmates. Here are a few impressions of this fantastic week from our students.

Every morning we had four English lessons with two different native speakers who came from Ireland or the United Kingdom. For the following four days, Carlotta and Patrick were our teachers. Fortunately, we did almost no grammar but played games, had discussions about various topics, came up with our own movie or played Shark Tank, which is a game where we had to invent and present our own products and convince the teachers and the native speakers to invest their money. As we had just learnt about Irish culture and history in our last English lessons, we could impress the native speaker teachers with our knowledge about Ireland.

In the afternoons, we either went hiking, played minigolf or we visited the nearby town Zell am See, where we took group pictures at the scenic lakeside. A group of motivated students even hiked to the summit of ‘Reiterkogel’. The native speakers always joined us for the afternoon activities. So we talked a lot of English when we compared Austrian culture to Irish one and taught them Austrian words. In the evenings, we were divided into groups again and the natives organised, for example, a pub quiz or different challenges. The highlight for many students was the disco on the last evening. All of us were dancing together celebrating this fantastic and unforgettable week.

We really enjoyed the time with our extremely nice teachers and had a great time together. To sum up, it was a fabulous week during which we could definitely improve our English skills.