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.