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Friday, December 02, 2011 By Sara G. and Sofia D.
 Customized shirts once again added color to the Watertown Middle School's foreign language soccer games.
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WMS speaks
the international
language of soccer
School's Italian, Spanish classes get
big kick out of second annual games
By SARA G. and SOFIA D.
Watertown Splash staff reporters
The second annual foreign language soccer games were played Oct. 26. All of the foreign language classes participated in some way to support their teams.
The games were scheduled to be played on Moxley Field, right in front of the school, but the bad weather prevented them from doing that. So the games took place in the lower gym.
Of course, a 45-minute period wasn’t much time to play, but the classes sure got pumped up to play each other. The language classes got to dress up and learn fun soccer vocab, and they also had a lot of fun cheering their teammates on.
Each class picked a country. The Spanish classes picked Spanish-speaking countries and the Italian classes chose Italian-speaking countries. When the classes had picked their countries, they decorated shirts and made posters.
“I thought the games went really well,” said Angela Kuzemczak, the Italian teacher at WMS. “Win or lose they all did really well and they seemed to be very excited to play.’’
During the sixth-period game with the sixth-graders, there was a special guest from seventh grade. Giovanni, a foreign exchange student from Italy, jumped in and gave the sixth-period Italian class a little advantage. He was a very good soccer player, so the students enjoyed playing with him.
“Overall,’’ said Ms. Kuzemczak, “I think as far as who won and lost, it was even and I’m excited to do it again.”
The foreign language teachers hope to have a rematch game in the spring and to hopefully have it outside.
(To see the Splash's coverage of the 2010 foreign language games, go to http://goo.gl/YkmVL.)
--Dec. 2, 2011--
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