The Beautiful Game, Three Languages at a Time

On Wednesday 6 May, after our A Level linguists successfully completed their speaking exams, we celebrated our community with the annual Language Football League for all Y12 and Y13 students of French, German and Spanish. This event is a highlight in their language study and allows students to use their learnt languages for fun, alongside other languages.

For the third year, the rules remained unchanged. Three 7-a-side games with a twist: golden cards giving advantages to each team to spice up the games and allow students to communicate in more complex French, German, and Spanish. All teams, led by their captains Prajin, Tom and Freddie, were not allowed to speak English at all for the duration of the games. Mme Fondu, Head of Modern Foreign Languages, shared, “It was a fantastic atmosphere with many inter-languages chants and jokes thrown around, in-between an excellent football tournament!”

The first game was a win by Spain against France (4-2) with Spain drawing against Germany (0-0). The tournament finished with a high energy game that led to a French win against Germany (3-0), confirming the overall winners as Spain for the second year in a row! ¡Campeones!