L'échange commence jeudi! - Les Français arrivent!

Our French exchange guests arrive on Thursday and we are excited to welcome them to beautiful pays de Galles!

They sent us a video message to say hello before their arrival! Enjoy!

7.4 - Puppet pals creativity en français

Since the start of Year 7, all Year 7 classes have been focussing on the important verbs "to be" - être and "to have" - avoir and using these verbs to describe their personality, nationality, hair and eyes, age and pets.

Last week 7.4 did a brilliant job creating fun conversations on the iPads using the app puppet pals! Here are some of their efforts! Très bien 7.4. Madame Green est très impressionnée!

 

A Level German film workshop

Today our Year 13 German pupils went to Cardiff Univeristy for a seminar on the film 'Goodbye Lenin'.

The film, which features in the pupils' final A2 exam, is about a family at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

Pupils enjoyed a taster of university life next year, and it was thoroughly enjoyable and very informative. 

Many thanks to Routes into Languages for organising this language workshop. 

Hard at work! Au travail.

Enjoying some French reading material à Paris. 

Year 12 visit Paris!

Here are Year 12 French students raring to go at the Eurostar terminal in St. Pancras, London this afternoon! They are currently spending an exciting 4 days exploring the sites and sounds of Paris. Many thanks to Madame Thomas and Mr Ling for accompanying them! More photos to follow soon.

Year 8 French classes create menus in French

In Year 8 French lessons students are currently learning food words and numbers so they can order food in French cafés!
They have had fun this week creating menus on the iPads. Here are some of their creations.

Student of the Month January

Language Club starts again January 21st!

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!