Instructions

 

Lost belongings

 

Te tīmatanga

Perhaps the best way for me to take advantage of the online Māori course I did through Te Wānanga ō Raukawa would be to work my way through the lessons and pick out what would be relevant to me on a daily teaching basis.

I'll use this blog as a resource and as a place to ask questions and to reflect on my own progress.

So here we go.

Regularly used instructions

Perhaps the best to start is to think of those instructions which I do use regularly and then work out how to translate them into Te Reo.

• Come to the mat
• Go to your desks
• Get out your XXXX
• Put away your XXXX
• Close the door
• Push your chairs back
• Bring your chairs in
• Use a pencil/crayon
• Bring me your XXXX
• Take off your XXXX
• Put on your XXXX
• Sit quietly
• SOMEONE please XXXX the XXXX

Where I'm at and what I want do.

I want to extend my classroom Te Reo to something that suits more of my needs and is able to incorporate more complex instructions in the class on a day to day basis. the purpose of this blog is to document my journey with Te Reo in the classroom and to serve as a resource, reflection document and review of how it goes.

So let's start off by listing the Te Reo that I use daily which is simple, presumably correct, and said pretty frequently.

• E tu!
• Haere mai!
• Kia ora.
• Ka kite ano.
• Whakarongo mai!
• Titiro mai!
• Kei te pehea koe?
• Kua rite?
• Haere ra
• E noho ra

What I know I need to work on:

• Faster recall of numbers/days/months.
• Giving more complex instructions (Subject + Verb + Object).
• Asking more questions.
• Increasing the use of classroom vocabulary.