Level 8: Achievement objectives
Students should be able to:
- 8.1 communicate about certainty and uncertainty, possibility and probability;
- 8.2 develop an argument or point of view, with reasons;
- 8.3 recount a series of events to inform, persuade, or entertain;
- 8.4 communicate the same information in different ways in different contexts;
- 8.5 respond to selected and adapted Māori language texts about te reo Māori and tikanga Māori (for example, from literature, film, newspapers, magazines, television, video/DVD, and radio).
Suggested language learning contexts
Suggested sociocultural themes
- Aroha
(love, sympathy, empathy) - Kāwanatanga
(governance) - Mana
(prestige, authority, power) - Mauri
(the life force) - Ranginui rāua ko, Papa-tū-ā-nuku
(Rangi and Papa) - Te Tiriti o Waitangi
(the Treaty of Waitangi) - Te whenua
(the land) - Tino rangatiratanga
(self-determination)
Suggested topics
- Bastion Point
- Land marches
- Māori media
- The representation of Māori in the media
- The foreshore and seabed
- The Waitangi Tribunal and Treaty settlements
- Environmental issues
- Natural resources
- Significant events, past and present
- Significant people, past and present
- Social cohesion and social justice in Aotearoa
Suggested text types
- Karakia
(prayers) - Kīwaha
(idioms) - Mōteatea
(traditional Māori songs and chants) - Pepeha
(iwi-specific sayings) - Whakataukī
(proverbs) - Classified advertisements
- Comics, graphic novels, cartoons
- Computer-assisted presentations
- Debates
- Dramatic texts
- Films
- Formal and informal letters
- Formal and informal conversational exchanges
- Graphs and tables
- Magazines and newspapers
- Novels
- Poems
- Promotional and advertising material (for example, videos, CDs, book covers, posters)
- Questionnaires
- Reports
- Short stories
- Songs
- Talks
- Television, film, theatre, book, and exhibition reviews
- Television and radio programmes
- Video presentations
Language modes
Whakarongo – Listening
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- understand much of what other speakers of te reo Māori say about a range of topics;
- distinguish between facts, opinions, and hypotheses and recognise intentions to persuade and influence in different contexts.
Pānui – Reading
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- understand much of what is written by other users of te reo Māori about a range of topics;
- distinguish between facts, opinions, and hypotheses and recognise intentions to persuade and influence in different contexts.
Mātakitaki – Viewing
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- understand the ways in which artists, speakers, and writers combine visual and verbal features to present ideas and information to achieve particular effects in a range of text types and settings;
- understand and respond to visual features used to present information and ideas for particular effects in a range of text types and settings.
Kōrero – Speaking
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- initiate and sustain conversations;
- give talks on a range of topics in a wide range of contexts;
- produce a wide range of spoken text types, formal and informal;
- adapt spoken texts to suit different audiences and purposes;
- use te reo Māori to entertain and to persuade as well as to inform.
Tuhituhi – Writing
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- use resources to experiment with new language and to review writing for accuracy;
- write about a range of topics across a wide range of text types, selecting words and expressions that are appropriate for the purpose and intended audience;
- adapt written texts to suit different audiences and purposes;
- use te reo Māori to entertain and to persuade as well as to inform.
Whakaari – Presenting
By the end of level 8, learners can:
- combine visual and verbal features to present ideas and information to achieve particular effects in a range of text types and settings;
- use visual language in a range of text types for different audiences, purposes, and effects;
- create new visual texts to express their own information and ideas.