Student Trips and Activities

Not everything at IELI happens in the classroom or in the language lab. There are other activities. For example:

• Welcome parties are held at the beginning of the Fall I, Spring I, and Summer terms to give students a chance to get to know each other, to play games and to win prizes.

Each term IELI students go on field trips around the Dallas-Denton area. Some of the places they go are:

• Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park,

• Grapevine Mills, the largest shopping mall in Texas,

• Dallas Mavericks basketball game or Dallas Stars ice hockey game,

• Texas Rodeo, and, in the Summer,

• Cowboy Dude ranch, where the students and teachers swim, learn Texas style dances, ride horses, and eat a barbecued beef lunch.

Other special events and activities are:

• Annual Talent Show,

• International Week with its International Food Fair and exhibits, and

• Spring Break trips in March to nearby places of interest for students who do not have their own travel plans. One popular place students often go is the Oklahoma International Wildlife Park.

During the term, lower level students take several field trips around the University of North Texas campus, the city of Denton, and to Dallas as part of their classwork and acculturation. Other places of interest that IELI students may visit are the IMAX theaters in Dallas and Ft. Worth, the Galleria Mall in Dallas with its ice skating rink, the J.F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza, and the zoos in Dallas and Ft. Worth, or the Ft. Worth Botanical Gardens.

Graduations
Variety Show
Outdoor Fun
in Class
IELI Students
IELI Welcome Party