School of English (school and lessons)

Although we all had a great time in England, we also went abroad to improve our current English skills. The aim was to gain more confidence in speaking with other people and therefore we attended a language school in Southbourne. 

 

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On March the 31^st we had our first lesson at “Southbourne School of English”. Before the trip even began, our English teachers divided the whole 7^th form in four different groups, according to our assessed English levels.

I don’t know about the other group’s lesson, so I am going to tell you about my own experience there.
My teacher was Pauline and she kept saying “Life is too short to be serious” so you can imagine how our lessons were. If this isn’t the case, I will give you further details: 

Every time we won a game or did our work properly, we got a sticker. These rewards came in different colours, forms and also sizes. So the bigger your achievement, the bigger and rarer your sticker would be. I got kind of obsessed with these pretty, sparkling prizes and therefore, I really tried to do my best and beat the others in order to satisfy my unfulfilled desire.

But enough from my weird affection, let’s talk more about my lessons. 

 

These stickers are my pride and joy :D

It wasn’t just about stickers, we also had to speak a lot and we weren’t allowed to talk in German, so as far as this is concerned, the rules were simple: The first time you were caught while speaking another language, my teacher would smile and say “In English, please”. The second time she would look really angry and shout “English!” but if you then dare to talk once more in a prohibited language, you actually have to go outside and wait there, but not if Pauline is your teacher. Pauline will make you wear a self-made paper hat, which will remind the whole group in which language they are supposed to talk, because “English” is written on this beautiful headwear. Fortunately, nobody in my group took risks to talk more often than twice in a forbidden language.

It sounds like we just had fun and we really did, but we did also do a lot of vocabulary building exercises, listening and reading tasks. Nevertheless, our teacher managed to put all these necessities in exciting and thrilling games so we never got bored. We played “Twister”, “Just a minute” and countless other games to expand our vocabulary and to keep us talking. 

We weren’t allowed to speak our mother tongue, nobody in the whole school, just in two special areas: the cafeteria and a zone in front of the building. The garden was a meeting point to get together with students from other countries to make new friends and to practice our English.

I really enjoyed these days in school and think the lessons really helped me to improve my English. 

Have a nice day,

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