IELI Student 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 change 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 games
• Texas Rodeo
• 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
• 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.
• Intramural sports, including tennis, basketball, and flag football

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