Level 7: Achievement objectives
Students should be able to:
- 7.1 communicate about future plans;
- 7.2 offer and respond to advice, warnings, and suggestions;
- 7.3 express and respond to approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement;
- 7.4 offer and respond to information and opinions, giving reasons;
- 7.5 read about and recount actual or imagined events in the past.
Suggested language learning contexts
Suggested sociocultural themes
- Ko te tangata
(the centrality of people) - Ko te reo
(the centrality of language) - Te ao Māori – te ao hurihuri
(the Māori world – the changing world) - Te whakaiti – ngā kaumātua
(humility – the elders)
Suggested topics
- The land wars
- The status of te reo Māori
- Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
(The Māori Language Commission) - Urbanisation, assimilation, and resistance
- Global travel and exploration
- Social work, community service, and teaching
- The tourism industry
- Working and finding work
Suggested text types
- Karakia
(prayers) - Kīwaha
(idioms) - Pepeha
(iwi-specific sayings) - Waiata Māori
(Māori songs) - Whakataukī
(proverbs) - Brochures and guidebooks
- Classified advertisements
- Comics and cartoons
- Computer-assisted presentations
- Conversational exchanges
- Curriculum vitae
- Electronic communications
- Websites
- Formal and informal letters
- Graphs and tables
- Instruction sheets
- News items
- Poems
- Programmes for shows and exhibitions
- Recipes
- Short stories
- Talks
- Telephone calls and answerphone messages
- Television and radio programmes
- Text messages
- Video presentations
Language modes
Whakarongo – Listening
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- understand much of what other speakers of te reo Māori say about a range of topics across a range of spoken text types, formal and informal;
- distinguish between facts and opinions and recognise intentions to persuade and influence.
Pānui – Reading
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- understand much of what is written in te reo Māori about a range of topics, across a range of written text types including narrative, expository, and persuasive texts;
- distinguish between facts and opinions and recognise intentions to persuade and influence.
Mātakitaki – Viewing
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- understand and respond to visual texts that have been created for a range of purposes, audiences, and effects;
- describe how visual and verbal features are combined for different purposes, audiences, and effects.
Kōrero – Speaking
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- use te reo Māori to entertain and persuade as well as to inform;
- initiate and sustain conversations in te reo Māori;
- give talks on a range of topics in a range of contexts;
- use appropriate pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, and stress.
Tuhituhi – Writing
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- use resources to experiment with new language and to review writing for accuracy;
- write in te reo Māori about a range of topics, using words and expressions that are appropriate for the purpose and intended audience;
- begin to use language to entertain and persuade as well as to inform.
Whakaari – Presenting
By the end of level 7, learners can:
- use visual language in a range of texts for different audiences, purposes, and effects;
- combine features of visual and verbal language in a range of texts for different audiences, purposes, and effects;
- create new visual texts to express their own information and ideas.