Year 8 - En ville

Bonjour Year 8!

Practise and learn the places in town using this film!

Klasse 13 - Umwelt - Was ist Fracking?

Schau diesen FilmWas ist Fracking? an und lies diesen Artikel über Fracking und beantworte diese Fragen.
Was ist Fracking?
Was sind die Vorteile vom Fracking?
Was sind die Nachteile vom Fracking?

Cowbridge MFL and Welsh Departments celebrate the European Day of Languages

 Cowbridge staff and students have celebrated the European Day of languages today!

26th September is an annual Europe-wide day of celebration to promote language learning and the fun of languages! In Cowbridge students relished the opportunity to taste a variety of European food include German Schokolade, French brioche and pain au chocolat, Polish ham, Spanish chorizo, Greek feta cheese, Welsh cakes and Italian cake. The only requirement was that they had to ask for the food in either French, German, Welsh or Spanish!

Key Stage 3 students tasting some delicious European food
and trying out their language skills.
 

 

Helpful phrases!

In Welsh, French and German lessons students also took on the logo challenge! Students had to work out whether the logos were of Welsh, French, German or Swiss companies and also what their products or services were! We wanted to raise students' awareness of the huge possibilities for working in international companies where their language skills will be valued and rewarded!

 



Guess if these companies are Swiss, Welsh, French or German and what their business is!


Many thanks, Vielen Dank, Merci beaucoup, Diolch to all the MFL teachers and Year 12 and Year 13 students who helped make the lunchtime food tasting such a fun experience!

More European Day of Language stories will follow shortly including our "Show us your tongue" film, Year 7's Eurosong and Y12's visit to Llansannor primary school's language club!

Year 8 German book covering winners!

Well done to all German classes in year 8 - some fantastic efforts for the book covering competition! The best two from the year group have been chosen - here they are:

 

 

 

Wunderbar!!!!

 

Year 9 French exchange!

The Year 9 French exchange letters are out!

 

The French exchange letters were given out to 9X today and will be given out to 9Y tomorrow (Wednesday 25th!). The French exchange is a fabulous opportunity to meet French people, practise your French, visit some great places in France and try out a wide variety of fun activities. If you have any further questions please ask any of the MFL teachers!

Enjoying the climbing wall in the Collège St Paul, Rezé where we do our exchange!

Having fun on the beach at La Baule before our crêpes at the beach café!

 



The votes are in!! Year 7 book covering competition

After much deliberation, the MFL department has decided on the best book covers in year 7! The results are as follows:

1. Grace Marshall (7.7)

2. Matthew Hardcastle 7.3

3. Jessica Gregory 7.6

Other entries judged to be excellent were:
Lara Thomas 7.1
Molly Lloyd 7.2
Peter Mitchell 7.3
Archie Burnett 7.3
Gabriella John 7.4
Cerys Wood 7.7
Stephanie Brownbill 7.8


Excellent efforts year 7, super!

Angela Merkel celebrates German election victory

The German national elections held yesterday, Sunday 22nd September 2013 led to a victory for Angela Merkel and her CDU party which achieved 41.5% of the vote.
Angela Merkel and her party will now have to seek a party to work with in coalition and these coalition talks will begin imminently.

Read more here: Angela Merkel celebrates German election victory

Year 9 - le petit déjeuner

 Qu'est-ce qu'on peut manger au petit déjeuner?

 

Regardez ce film.

 

Note as many food words as possible in French for what you can eat or drink at breakfast

German elections get underway - 22nd September 2013

The 2013 German elections have got underway today.
The current chancellor (the German equivalent of our prime minister) Angela Merkel is seeking to be elected for the third time as leader of Germany.
Even if Angela Merkel and her party, the CDU do win the largest number of seats in parliament, it is unlikely that the CDU will gain a majority of the votes so the CDU will probably have to build a coalition (share power) with other parties. Forming a coalition is however the norm in Germany.
Read more here: Germany election - voting gets underway
Or if you want to read a bit in German and find out more about how elections in Germany work click here: Bundestagswahl 2013

Year 7 - Alphabet Song

Apprenez l'alphabet ici!

The European Day of Languages is coming soon....

Watch this space for lots of fun and frolics as Cowbridge students get ready to celebrate the European Day of Languages and consider why you should be learning a foreign language!

 

Former Cowbridge student Ollie Hitchings is now in France playing rugby!

Ollie Hitchings is playing rugby for Biarritz Olympique in France! Read more here!

Ollie Hitchings - Former Cowbridge student's rugby exploits in France

Year 10 French Song to learn avoir

Listen to this song to help you learn the very important conjugation of the verb avoir which is essential for learning the perfect tense in French.

Key Stage 3 Christmas Market Germany Trip to Cologne, Aachen and Phantasialand and Monschau

Hallo Klasse 8 und 9!

You have a fantastic opportunity to participate in an exciting visit to the Christmas markets in Germany from Wednesday 4th - Sunday 8th December 2013.
 
Letters providing more details about the visit are being given out this week in your language lessons. Please see Frau Green or Frau Davies for more details.



The Cologne Christmas market by night. A real German cultural experience.

 

 We enjoyed lots of crisp snowy weather. Perfect to get us in the Christmas mood.



The Lindt Chocolate factory. Mmmm. Lecker. Schmecker.

Unsere Einkäufe. Our Christmas purchases.

The eye catching Christmas stalls.



Hallo Klasse 8!

Have fun watching this video to learn greetings!

 

Klasse 9 Deutsch - Filme über meine Familie

Hallo Klasse 9!

 

Look at these film clips about family and pets!

How many new family and pets words can you learn in German?



What would it be like to learn English as a foreign language?!

If you think learning French or German is a challenge, so is English!

Imagine what foreigners have to think about when leaning English!

T.S.W., Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners

 

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird,

And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead –

For goodness’ sake don’t call it “deed”!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.) 

A moth is not a moth in mother

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,

And then there’s dose and rose and lose –

Just look them up – and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward,

And font and front and word and sword,

And do and go and thwart and cart –

Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive.

I’d mastered it when I was five!

Klasse 13 - Umweltprobleme!

Seht ihr diesen kurzen Film an und schreib 5 Umweltprobleme, die ihr im Film seht.

Bienvenue - Willkommen - Welcome!

Welcome (and welcome back!) to the MFL department at Cowbridge Comprehensive School! Stay tuned for more videos, pics and info about languages to keep you up to date with all things French and German.

Congratulations - Félicitations - Herzlichen Glückwunsch on excellent A-level and GCSE results in French and German!

 

Congratulations to all Cowbridge MFL students on another successful year! 92% of GCSE French students achieved an A*- C at GCSE and 45% of students achieved an A* or A! Bravo!

100% of GCSE German students achieved an A* - C and 32% achieved an A* or A!

At A-level in French and German students also achieved very well and met their target grades. A special mention should go to Katie Wynne who achieved A* in both French and German and will shortly be going on to study French and German at the University of Cambridge.

With languages at GCSE and A-level being very highly respected subjects by the top universities, there is no doubt that Cowbridge MFL students are putting themselves in an excellent position in the competitive university market place and in the global economy by studying such well regarded subjects.