Tasks and activities
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Flashcards
To introduce some simple food-related vocabulary, use flashcards featuring pictures of kai as in resource sheet 3.1.
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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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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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Multiple choice
Create sets of multi-choice descriptors to accompany the picture of the kitchen on resource sheet 3.3.
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Daily food record
Keep a record of food eaten.
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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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Māori recipes
Once the students know a variety of food-related terms, help them to follow a simple Māori recipe.
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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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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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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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Strip-picture
For a strip-picture task, cut a picture featuring kai into strips or squares.
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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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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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Same-different
In pairs or groups, get the students to take part in a same-different task.
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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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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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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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Ordinal numbers
Use ordinal numbers to describe the days of the week.
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Role play
Use semi-scripted dialogues and get the students to role-play some typical meal scenes.
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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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Dictocomp
For a dictocomp, you could read out a simple recipe in Māori.
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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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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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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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Exploring Māori place names associated with food
The students could explore Māori place name derivations that are associated with food.
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Simple karakia
Learn the words of some simple karakia with resource sheet 8.6.