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  1. Flashcards

    To introduce some simple food-related vocabulary, use flashcards featuring pictures of kai as in resource sheet 3.1.

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  2. Playing cards

    Use the pictures and words on resource sheet 3.1 to make packs of cards for games like Snap, Fish, and Pairs.

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  3. Bingo cards

    Use resource sheet 3.2 to make Bingo cards for a game of food Bingo to reinforce the new vocabulary learning.

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  4. Multiple choice

    Create sets of multi-choice descriptors to accompany the picture of the kitchen on resource sheet 3.3.

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  5. Daily food record

    Keep a record of food eaten.

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  6. Māori Language Commission names for the days of the week

    Students achieving at curriculum levels 3 and 4 could explore the names for Monday to Friday developed by the Māori Language Commission as alternatives to the widely used transliterations.

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  7. Māori recipes

    Once the students know a variety of food-related terms, help them to follow a simple Māori recipe.

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  8. Information transfer

    Design a type of information transfer task by getting the students to put the written text of a recipe or menu into pictorial form – or the converse.

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  9. Strip-story

    Cut a recipe into strips to make a strip-story task and ask the students to collectively order the steps/instructions.

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  10. Picture dictation

    For a picture-dictation task similar to a strip-story task, but somewhat easier for the students to do, read out a food-related story or recipe and get the students to sequence the illustrations.

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  11. Strip-picture

    For a strip-picture task, cut a picture featuring kai into strips or squares.

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  12. True-false-make it right

    Give the students a true-false-make it right task using a set of pictures depicting a recipe, food-related story, or menu.

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  13. Cloze

    Design a cloze, where the students have to fill in gaps in a piece of text, using food-related pictures as a stimulus.

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  14. Same-different

    In pairs or groups, get the students to take part in a same-different task.

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  15. Dycomm

    In pairs or groups, get the students to take part in a dycomm task, in which each student possesses a different but essential bit of information that is needed to complete the task.

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  16. Text innovation

    For a text innovation task, get your students to manipulate the language in the reader Ētahi Kai while they still have the security of the predictable sentence patterns of the original text.

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  17. 4–3–2

    To increase their fluency, give your students a 4–3–2 task where they have four, then three, and then two minutes to give instructions on how to make a particular dish.

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  18. Ordinal numbers

    Use ordinal numbers to describe the days of the week.

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  19. Role play

    Use semi-scripted dialogues and get the students to role-play some typical meal scenes.

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  20. Shopping list

    To practise communicating the cost of something, get your students to write a shopping list in Māori, analyse supermarket fliers, and work out the costs in te reo Māori.

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  21. Dictocomp

    For a dictocomp, you could read out a simple recipe in Māori.

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  22. Listen-and-draw

    Facilitate a listen-and-draw task using resource sheet 3.11 where each partner tells the other what food-related pictures to draw in the empty squares.

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  23. Building phases and sentences

    Your students could build phrases and sentences from a selection of words you have prepared on cards, playing a game similar to Last Card.

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  24. Using te reo Māori input from TV

    As a class, you could watch television cooking programmes broadcast in Māori that demonstrate how to gather and cook kai.

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  25. Exploring Māori place names associated with food

    The students could explore Māori place name derivations that are associated with food.

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  26. Simple karakia

    Learn the words of some simple karakia with resource sheet 8.6.

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