Bald ist Weihnachten! C'est bientôt le Noël!

 

Enjoy these French and German songs in your lessons this week or at home too!

Year 9 STEM science and languages workshops take place this week

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week all of Year 9 have been taking part in Languages and Science workshops. The MFL department are proud that with the help of SEE-Science, we have been lucky enough to enjoy the expertise and insights of 4 different speakers who all use languages in their business and scientific careers and in Wales: David, a UK diplomat, Chris and Sarah from Tata Steel and Lars from Dow Corning.

Here are some of 9X enjoying working on a task looking at different international scientific companies.

Ben Jones presents his group's findings loudly and confidently.

Here they are concentrating intently on the task in hand.

 

Lars Luckoff presenting his final quiz with the class on Thursday. The prize for the team with the highest marks in the quiz was a pot of silicone. Lars works for Dow Corning.

 One of the final thought provoking questions in Lars' quiz.

Lars and the students having fun at the end of the quiz.

The MFL department of Cowbridge Comprehensive would like to express their thanks, danke schön, merci to David, Lars, Sarah and Chris, who all gave up their valuable time to talk to Year 9 about how their use languages in their careers and how languages have helped their careers in business and science to progress.

We are sure that all of Year 9 have enjoyed the thought provoking process considering new careers options open to them in Science, Languages and other areas of course!

Year 11 French speaking exam tips!



Year 11 - Follow these steps to success in your speaking exams next week!

Learn your presentation step by step, testing yourself after each sentence so you KNOW you know it all.
Check you are not speaking too fast.
Ask your teacher or another French speaker to record the presentation for you so you can focus on pronunciation.
Double check any words that are hard to pronounce.
Make sure you understand the questions that you will be asked.
Make sure you can answer each question confidently - sounding confident is the key!

Come to the revision sessions at the following times:

Monday 1st December: 1.15 B2D

Tuesday 2nd December: 1.15 B2E

Wednesday 3rd December: 1.15 B2E

Thursday 4th December: 3.15 - 4.00 B2D

Friday 5th December 1.15 B2D (for Mr Marwaha's class only)

Come with your notes and ask any questions on pronunciation, vocabulary, extending your answers, or practise with other students or teachers! The more practice the better!

Riceathon 9Y4

Student of the Month - November 2014

25 years ago today the Berlin Wall fell. Germany commemorates andcelebrates.

9th November 1989 after months of political pressure the Berlin Wall was forced down. Germany could begin to celebrate and hope for freedom for all its citizens.

BBC tells the history in 60 seconds

To celebrate 25 years since "der Mauerfall" Berlin created a "Lichtgrenze"- a light border along the route where the wall originally was. 

Here are thousands of people celebrating and hoping for freedom 25 years ahold today.

This video also gives a very succinct and fascinating version of the events!

The Berlin wall - This is another great link to read and watch more about the Berlin wall.

Be frugal with google (translate!)

Here are 3 very good reasons why your brain is cleverer than google translate!

What it should say: entrance only with a tour guide!

What it should say: bienvenue! De rien means "you're welcome" in French, after someone has said merci!

Whilst this is a beautiful translation fail, it's still a bit weird!

Welcome back to a new half term of fun and work in French and German.

Practice makes the master: In other words "practice makes perfect"

Stay calm and work hard

Year 8 French

Use this video to help you practise and remember hobbies in French.

Student of the Month!! October 2014

Why languages matter to me

See what Eddie Izzard has to say about learning languages.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/aug/28/why-languages-matter-eddie-izzard-alastair-campbell

Year 6 Open Evening

Welcome - bienvenue - willkommen - to all of the prospective parents and pupils we met this evening. Our very helpful pupils from 8.6 had a great time showing everybody around - here they are discussing the economic situation in Europe (or, rather, enjoying some edible Euros!) 

Year 7 - Apprenez l'alphabet en français

 

European Day of Languages celebrations - Food! Essen! A manger!

Friday 26th September was an exciting day for Cowbridge MFL students with lots of exciting events taking place all day!
During lunchtime students had the opportunity to taste délicieux food from European countries: pain au chocolat, brioche, chorizo, salami, stollen, fromage, pain, Haribo Bonbons, chocolat and much more.

The excitement at the food!

To be able to relish the tasty international food, there was only one deal; the students had to ask for the food in either cymraeg, français, deutsch, español or italiano! Some students chose to talk in another language to ask for the food too; in addition to the above languages we heard some Swedish, some Slovak and also Norwegian!

Nick in Year 12 German helping students to practise their language skills.

The queue for the food!

Here's Nick again full of
enthusiasm.

Our new French language assistant, Anne-Cécile
gets stuck in and helps out! Merci beaucoup!

 



Year 12 and 13 students dress up in a
continental theme to help out!

Here is Hannah in Year 12 helping
students to brush up their
language skills!

And Aldi in Year 13!

Lots of lecker, délicieux tasty treats!

Many thanks to all of Year 12 and Year 13 language
students who helped out ! Here they all are lined up
looking very European!

Shellie in Year 12 is getting very into her Welsh
here!

Enjoying the food!

Luca in Year 12 sporting a
very good look here!

Toby in Year 12 looking
particularly great as well!

Year 7 start celebrating EDL early

Year 7 pupils have begun EDL celebrations early!! Stay tuned for our 'handy' languages

extravaganza!

Canteen Food for EDL on Friday

European Day of Languages - Celebrate with us on Friday!

Fantastische Hefte! Des beaux cahiers!

Well done year 7,8 and 9 on your great, creative efforts for your thematic book covers at the start of this school year. 

Here are some of the most creative books!

 A German fairy tale theme.... By Sophie Ellis-Hunt in Year 8.

We like the hand of friendship here. Well done Ruby Davies in Year 8.

Very artistic effort from Phoebe Jennings in 8.6!

Colourful and full of information, Charlotte Fuller's book is a bit glam..

An excellent effort from Year 9 student, Nadia. Wunderbar!

And Mali Howell's depiction of Angela Merkel is quite something!

Très bien Dylan Morris in Year 7.

Very colourful, Cerys!

Orla Galton added some French facts. Superbe!

Thea in 7.2 also had an original design!

The sporting theme here is super! Merci Aimee Smith in Year 7,