English in Action


Hello everyone!

 

I have not written any blog entry for such a long time, but today I am going to tell you about my intensive English project week in my school. As, you already know, I attend the business school in Perg. Last week it had offered a five day long English course and I took part in it. The course is called “English in Action”. During this week, we had three teachers, who were from the USA. Sue and Rory usually live in New York City. Suzanne comes from Kentucky.

We were three classes and each of them had a main teacher. Ours was Suzanne, she was about 40 years old. She was a teacher for 20 years and now she has been teaching English in Action courses for two years. She told us, that she was the first time here in Austria.

 

Our main topic was business, of course. We made a big business plan and I think it was really interesting. I have not done this in German yet, that is why it was much more difficult to do it in the English language. Our company was called Super Fruit Drink. It produces three different drinks, which are 100% natural.

Besides we learnt how to spend money in a right way, about teenage entrepreneurs, how to make a perfect presentation, how to get recruited and we learnt tips about how to do a great interview. For all of us it was very important to learn, how to make a perfect presentation, because at the end of the week we had to present our company to the other two groups.

 

My personal opinion is that it was a really interesting week. I did it the second time, this time I learnt a lot more and I made a few new experiences. I did not learn so much new vocabulary but I learnt how to talk without thinking very much about the words. Because when one of the English teachers asks you something, you should not think too much about what you would like to say. If there is a word, which you do not know, you may not say it in German, but you should describe the word.

I am not sure, if I would do it a third time, but I think it was a great experience again. If you have the possibility, you should do it.
 

 

 

This was my blog entry about English in Action. I hope you enjoyed it! See you soon!

Yours,

Kristina

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