Level 5: Achievement objectives
Students should be able to:
- 5.1 communicate about past activities and events;
- 5.2 communicate about present and past states, feelings, and opinions;
- 5.3 communicate about past habits and routines;
- 5.4 describe, compare, and contrast people, places, and things.
Suggested language learning contexts
Suggested sociocultural themes
- Aroha
(love, sympathy, empathy) - Ngā iwi
(people, tribes) - Taha wairua
(spirituality) - Whanaungatanga
(relationships)
Suggested topics
- Fishing and food gathering
- Preparing and presenting food
- Recounting sport, leisure, and cultural activities
- Recounting activities with family, friends, and community
Suggested text types
- Karakia
(prayers) - Kīwaha
(idioms) - Pepeha
(iwi-specific sayings) - Waiata Māori
(Māori songs) - Whakataukī
(proverbs) - Brochures
- Plans for models and structures
- Conversational exchanges
- Letters
- Maps (including weather maps)
- Questionnaires
- Reports
- School timetables
- Simple interviews
- Simple speeches
- Web pages
Language modes
Whakarongo – Listening
By the end of level 5, 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;
- distinguish between past and present actions and states.
Pānui – Reading
By the end of level 5, learners can:
- make use of context and familiar language to work out the relationships between things, events, and ideas;
- understand specific details in contexts that may contain some unfamiliar language;
- distinguish between past and present actions and states.
Mātakitaki – Viewing
By the end of level 5, learners can:
- understand and respond to information and ideas encountered in a variety of visual texts;
- identify particular features of visual language and understand their significance in communicating information to a specific audience for a specific purpose, on their own and in combinations with verbal language.
Kōrero – Speaking
By the end of level 5, learners can:
- initiate and sustain short conversations;
- give short talks on familiar topics in a range of contexts, past and present;
- discuss topics of mutual interest;
- use appropriate pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation.
Tuhituhi – Writing
By the end of level 5, learners can:
- use resources to experiment with new language and review writing for accuracy;
- write information on familiar topics in a range of contexts, past and present;
- use appropriate writing conventions;
- write a range of text types, for example, expository, recount, and narrative texts.
Whakaari – Presenting
By the end of level 5, learners can:
- communicate information, ideas, or narrative through texts in which visual and verbal features interact to produce particular meanings and effects;
- present or perform a variety of visual texts for a range of purposes and audiences.