Tasks and activities
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Flashcards
Introduce sports-related vocabulary using the sports-related flashcards.
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Playing cards
Combine the words and pictures from resource sheet 5.1 to make packs of cards to play matching games like Snap, Fish, and Pairs.
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Bingo cards
For a game of Bingo to reinforce the hauora vocabulary, use the Bingo cards from resource sheet 5.3.
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Speech balloons
Hand out copies of resource sheet 5.4 and get the students to fill in the speech balloons, focusing on how to express an ailment.
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Multiple choice
Create multiple choice descriptors to accompany the pictures of the sports equipment on resource sheet 5.1.
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Listen-and-draw 1
Facilitate a listen-and-draw task to help the students consolidate their sports-related vocabulary (as well as the language of instruction).
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Information transfer
Information transfer tasks involve getting students to put spoken or written text into another form, such as a chart, grid, picture, or diary – or the converse.
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Strip-story
Do a strip-story task by cutting a piece of written text about a health or sports topic into strips and asking the students to collectively, through negotiation, reconstruct the content.
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Cloze
Using the pictures from the reomation Kei te Tākaro ngā Tamariki (The Children are Playing), design a cloze task with picture clues where the students have to fill in the gaps in the text.
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True-false-make it right
Make a true-false-make it right task by giving every student the same picture of a sports day or family outing.
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Same-different
Have the students work in pairs on a same-different task.
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Script-writing
Facilitate a script-writing task where the students (working in groups) write aerobics instructions.
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Listen-and-draw 2
Design a listen-and-draw task where you give the students an incomplete picture (for example, of a sports day at school, walking in the bush, flying kites, or a class trip to the beach).
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Descriptive quiz
Use descriptive quizzes to describe your favourite healthy food or a famous sports person.
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Text Innovation
Rewrite a Māori language reader.