Level 4: Achievement objectives
Students should be able to:
- 4.1 request, offer, accept, and decline things, invitations, and suggestions;
- 4.2 communicate about plans for the immediate future;
- 4.3 communicate about obligations and responsibilities;
- 4.4 give and seek permission;
- 4.5 communicate about the quality, quantity, and cost of things.
Suggested language learning contexts
Suggested sociocultural themes
- Manaakitanga
(hospitality) - Te marae
- Te rapu whakaaetanga
(seeking permission) - Tiakitanga
(taking care of others) - Te wā
(the time) - Whanaungatanga
(relationships)
Suggested topics
- Planning and shopping for a hui
- Roles and duties at home, in the community, and at school
- Planning a visit away from home
- Telling the time
Suggested text types
- Karakia
(prayers) - Kīwaha
(idioms) - Pepeha
(iwi-specific sayings) - Waiata Māori
(Māori songs) - Whakataukī
(proverbs) - Information brochures and pamphlets
- Announcements
- Informal and semi-formal conversational exchanges
- Informal notes and letters to family
- Menus
- Notes, cards, and letters of invitation, acceptance, and refusal
- Posters
- Rules and regulations
- Shopping lists
- Simple advertisements
- Simple web pages
- Email and text messages
Language modes
Whakarongo – Listening
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- make use of context and familiar language to work out meaning and relationships between things, events, and ideas;
- understand specific details in contexts that may contain some unfamiliar language.
Pānui – Reading
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- understand a range of short written texts that consist mainly of familiar language;
- understand overall meaning and specific detail in contexts that may contain some unfamiliar language;
- guess the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrases used in familiar contexts.
Mātakitaki – Viewing
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- identify particular features of visual language and understand their significance in communicating information and ideas to specific audiences;
- understand and respond to combinations of visual and verbal language and their significance in communicating information and ideas to specific audiences.
Kōrero – Speaking
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- engage in short personal conversations;
- make plans with friends, face to face and by telephone;
- initiate and sustain short conversations that involve polite social interactions (such as declining invitations);
- give short prepared talks on familiar topics;
- use generally appropriate pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
Tuhituhi – Writing
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- use resources (for example, dictionaries and glossaries) to experiment with new language and to review writing for accuracy;
- write short texts on familiar topics;
- plan longer written texts and write parts of these;
- use appropriate writing conventions;
- send text and email messages.
Whakaari – Presenting
By the end of level 4, learners can:
- communicate information, ideas, or narrative through texts in which visual and verbal features interact to produce particular meaning and effects;
- present or perform traditional or modern aspects of the culture in selected settings.