Passport for your race around Asia

Are you ready to start your virtual race with Jai around Asia? Your first task is to design a passport that you will be able to use as a record of your journey and your work.

1. Open up Jai's passport for ideas.
2. Use PowerPoint to create your own passport.

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz to start the race, and then get moving with the activities.

Chinese translation

Jai was very excited to have been given a Chinese translation for his name. Use this website to find a translation for your own name and insert it into your passport.

1. Open the Chinese translation website and follow the instructions.
2. Copy your Chinese name into your passport document.
3. Find the meaning for your name from the same website and insert this into your passport as well.

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz

Puzzling Asia

There are many different countries in Asia. Do the map puzzle of Asia to help you and Jai find your way around.

1. Open the map of Asia game you will need to download it.
2. Fill in the different countries.
3. Take a screen shot of the completed puzzle to send to Ed.

Press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
Open your passport
Press Ctrl V (paste).

Email your passport to wiki@tki.org.nz.

Write your name in Japanese

Katakana is the system of writing in Japanese that is used mainly for words foreign to Japanese. Use this website to write your name using the Japanese katakana symbols. Remember the vowels in katakana sound similar to the vowels in the Māori language, A E I O U. They may not be the exact translation, but they are close enough to recognise.

1. Here is my name. Can you figure it out?

2. Write your own name in katakana.
3. Design a flag in a draw program, transfer your name in katakana to your flag. Here's mine.

4. Save this document into your passport.

Email your passport to wiki@tki.org.nz

Tuhia tōu ingoa i roto i te reo o Hapanihi

Ka taea e koe te tuhituhi tōu ingoa i roto i te reo katakana? Whakamahi tēnei paewhakaata kia tuhia e koe tōu ingoa i roto i ngā tohu o te reo katakana. Kia maumahara koe, he ōrite te rongo o ngā oro puare ki tā te reo Māori. Arā, A E I O U. Ko te tūmanako he tata tōu whakahapanihi ki tōu ingoa tūturu.

1. Anei taku ingoa, ka taea e koe te whakamāori?

2. Tuhia tōu ingoa i roto i te reo katakana.
3. Hangaia he haki i roto i te hōtaka Draw, tāngia tōu haki i tōu ingoa katakana.

Tukua mai ōu haki ki a I-mēra mai wiki@tki.org.nz Anei tāku.

Foreign farewells

You will need to be able to meet and greet native people in their own language while travelling. Interpret these greetings and farewells.

1. Open the language-matching document.
2. Match the correct country with the language.
3. Insert this document into your passport.

Email your passport to wiki@tki.org.nz

Asia – QuizIt

Test your general knowledge about Asia before you leave on your trip. Choose which version of the quiz you would like to do.

Tahi
Rua

Finish the quiz then take a screen shot to send to Ed:

• Press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
• Open your passport.
• Press Ctrl V (paste).

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz

Asia crossword

Open the Asia Crossword

Finish the crossword then take a screen shot to send to Ed:

• Press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
• Open your passport.
• Press Ctrl V (paste).

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz

Strike a pose

Go to a butoh dance in Japan. Look for similarities and differences between Japanese butoh dance and the Māori haka. Butoh dance – the body as art.
Butoh is an avant–garde dance form developed in Japan. In butoh there are no leaps, jumps, or spins. At times there is no motion at all, just maintaining a posture that involves standing still, or crouching:
http://www.anonsalon.com/2001/images/butoh.jpg
http://www.ybae.org/img/concerts/
august-butoh.jpg
http://www.sover.net/~bubriski/butoh/butoh02.jpg
http://www.tmcrew.org/arte/danzabuto/
yoshimoto.jpg

Haka

Henare Teowai of Ngati Porou, an acknowledged master of the art of haka was asked on his deathbed, "What is the art of performing haka?" He replied, "Kia korero te katoa o te tinana." (The whole body should speak.)
http://www.hps.com/~tpg/singapore/graphics
/nz-maori-haka1.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1440000/images/
_1444968_haka150pa.jpg
http://www.maoriperformingarts.co.nz/webfiles/
Kapahaka/webpages/images/2484/haka.jpg

1. Practise a haka pose and a butoh pose.
2. Ask a friend to take digital photos of you doing each of the poses.
3. Let Wiki know what it was like doing each of the poses and what was similar and different about them.

Email your photos with similarities and differences descripton to wiki@tki.org.nz

Ko butoh me haka, he aha te rereketanga?

He maha ngā rereketanga me ngā ōritehanga o te butoh ki te haka.

Butoh dance
http://www.anonsalon.com/2001/images/butoh.jpg
http://www.ybae.org/img/concerts/
august-butoh.jpg
http://www.sover.net/~bubriski/butoh/butoh02.jpg
http://www.tmcrew.org/arte/danzabuto/
yoshimoto.jpg

Haka
http://www.hps.com/~tpg/singapore/graphics/
nz-maori-haka1.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1440000/images/
_1444968_haka150pa.jpg
http://www.maoriperformingarts.co.nz/
webfiles/Kapahaka/webp ages/images/2484/haka.jpg

1. Tuhia kia rima ngā rerekētanga o te butoh ki te haka.
2. Tuhia kia rima ngā ōritehanga o te butoh ki te haka.
3. Whakawai tētahi mahi ā tinana o te butoh o te haka rānei
4. Tangohia he whakaahua o āmahi ā tinana.

I-mēra mai ōu whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

About architecture

1. Check out photos of the Māori meeting house and the Japanese temple: Waitangi whare tupuna (meeting house), Japanese temple.
2. Can you see two similarities and two differences between the structures? Write about these similarities and differences in your passport.

Email your passport to wiki@tki.org.nz

He whare Māori, he whare Hapanihi

1. Tirohia ēnei pikitia o ngā wharetipuna me ngā whare karakia a te Hapanihi. Waitangi whare tupuna, Whare karakia a te hapanihi
2. Tuhia kia rua ngā rerekētanga o ēnei momo whare. Tuhia kia rua ngā ōritenga o ēnei momo whare.

I-mēra mai ōu whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Giant panda

Visit the giant panda bears at the zoo in China. Watch Mei Xiang and Tian Tian on the pandacam and read about them.

1. Open the Giant Panda Puzzle, complete it, and take a screen shot to paste into your passport.
2. Open the Giant Panda Quiz, complete it, and take a screen shot to paste into your passport.
3. Open the Giant Panda Crossword, complete it, and take a screen shot to paste into your passport.
4. To take a screen shot:
   Press the Print Screen button on your keyboard
   Open your passport
   Press Ctrl V (paste)

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz

Asian destination

Take a virtual safari of the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand.

1. Open the postcard, save it to your work folder, write to Ed and explain:

• how visitors feed the elephants;
• how elephants keep cool;
• what happens during elephant new year.

2. Open the elephant picture:

• rotate the image,
• use the graphics select tool to select the image,
• copy the image,
• paste it into Paint,
• colour the image,
• and insert it into your postcard.

2. Insert your postcard into your passport.

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz

Taiko drumming

Japanese taiko drumming is an amazing expression combining elements of music and dance.

1. Check out the following URLs and find out three interesting facts about taiko drumming
   http://www.taiko.com/index.php?option=
   com_wrapper&Itemid=39
   http://www.mark.alcock.com/
   taiko-meantime/main.html
   http://www.concentric.net/~Masaf/Photo1.html
2. Take a look at the Asian Drums: Kyoshi Yoshida website.
   Scroll down the page and listen to Audio 4.
   What instruments are they using to make these sounds?

Email your answers to wiki@tki.org.nz in your passport.

Ngā pahū taiko

He rawe rawa atu te pahū o ngā taramu taiko a te Hapanihi. Ka puāwai te hononga o te kanikani me te puoro.

1. Tirohia ēnei paewhakaata kia mōhio ai ki ngā kōrero e toru e pā ana ki te pahē o ngā taramu taiko a te Hapanihi.
2. http://www.taiko.com/index.php?option=
   com_wrapper&Itemid=39
   http://www.mark.alcock.com/
   taiko-meantime/main.html
   www.concentric.net/~Masaf/Photo1.html
3. Tirohia te paewhakaata o Kyoshi Yoshida. Whakarongo ki te Audio 4 kei raro i te whārangi matua. He aha ngā taonga puoro e whakaputa ana i tēnei waiata?

I-mēra mai ōu whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Forbidden City

While in Beijing, you and Jai decide to tour the Forbidden City. Check out the sights and answer the questions.

1. Open the Forbidden City website.
2. Take the virtual tour and answer the following questions in your passport:
   a) What year was the Hall of Supreme Harmony built?
   b) How many Chinese emperors have lived there?
   c) How high are the surrounding walls?

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz with your answers

Counting in Japanese and Māori

Use this website to learn to count in Japanese and Māori. When you are able to get a score of over 90 percent correct, take a screen shot of your score and insert it into your passport. Gumbare shi mashoo!

Email your passport to wiki@tki.org.nz

Kautehia i te reo Hapanihi i te reo Māori rānei

Whakamahi tēnei paewhakaata kia kautehia i roto i te reo Māori i te reo Hapanihi rānei. Ki te riro i a koe kia 90%, i-mēra mai tētahi pikitia ā rorohiko o tāu i whiwhi ai ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Ka riro i a koe tētahi pira. Kia kaha rā!

A virtual visit

Next stop – Korea! Find out about their flag and decorate a kimch'i pot to take back as a souvenir for Ed.

1. Connect to the Korean virtual tour.
2. Take the tour and complete the flag and kimch'i pot activities.
3. Copy and paste both activities into your passport.

Email your passport to ed@tki.org.nz