Tasks and activities
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Flashcards 1
For vocabulary recognition, make a set of flashcards using resource sheet 7.1.
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Flashcards 2
Use resource sheet 7.1 to make another pack of cards showing the matching words.
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Bingo cards
Use the Bingo cards on resource sheet 7.2 to reinforce the vocabulary.
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Multiple choice
Create some multi-choice descriptions to go with some pictures of celebrations.
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Treasure hunt
Design a treasure hunt for a birthday party using clues in te reo Māori (in the form of commands).
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Strip-story
Turn the Ngā Kete Kōrero story Te Rā o Māmā into a strip story.
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True-false-make it right
For a true-false-make it right task, show the students a picture of a typical birthday scene and read out some text about it, deliberately making some untrue statements as you go.
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Cloze
Design a cloze task where the students have to fill in gaps in the text.
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Same-different
For a same-different task that students can work on in pairs, use the sets of numbered grids (Set A and Set E) showing celebration-related pictures in resource sheet 7.3.
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Dycomm
For a group or pair dycomm task, give one student some information from a birthday invitation and the other student different information. Get them to ask each other questions and give each other answers in te reo Māori.
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Text innovation
You can use text innovation to help your students manipulate the language in a task where they still have the security of predictable sentence patterns from the original piece of text.
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Role play
With your students, use scripted or semi-scripted dialogues and have them role-play some typical celebration scenes.
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Dictocomp
For a dictocomp task, read a story about a Matariki celebration (twice) at normal speed.
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Listen-and-draw
For a listen-and-draw task, give the students some simple instructions about items to draw onto a picture of an empty table, to create a picture of a celebration feast.
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Information transfer
Facilitate an information transfer task using the reader Te Rā o Māmā, with or without showing the pictures.