1. The Whānga Family – The arrival
Mārama arrives at the home of the Whānga family.
Explanations – Saying hello; asking people’s names; addressing someone; terms of address; nō hea koe?; kei hea tō kāinga; counting 1-10; hongi.
2. The Whānga Family – The Rescue
Mārama and Rāwiri go to the beach.
Explanations – Location words (roto, runga, waho, etc.); personal pronouns; eeling.
3. The Whānga Family – The Students
Aroha and Rāwiri go to University.
Explanations – Counting 20-100; nā wai ... i...?; nāku, nāu, nāna; directionals; traditional clothing and harakeke.
4. The Whānga Family – Fishing
Kēri and Hone have some problems when they go fishing.
Explanations – Telling the time; particles, verbs and tenses; regional names; Te Ahurei a Tūhoe.
5. The Whānga Family – The Feast
The washing machine breaks down and Rāwiri and Mārama take the dirty clothes to the laundramat.
Explanations – Months of the year; using negatives with verbs; Māori place names; food.
6. The Whānga Family – The Laundramat
Rāwiri is in love with Hana.
Explanations – Mountain names; possessives and the a & o categories; Native bird names; Taranaki.
7. The Whānga Family – The Game
The family go to play touch rugby.
Explanations – parts of the body; mā wai ...?, māku/mōku, māu/mōu, māna/mōna; parts of the head; Mātaatua wharenui.
8. The Whānga Family – The Big Sale
Mārama sells Aroha’s old vase.
Explanations – colours; giving orders using ‘e’; giving orders using ‘mai, atu, iho’ and ‘ake’; giving orders using using passive endings; giving orders using with statives using ‘kia’; words for food; Tauranga Moana and landscape features of significance.
9. The Whānga Family – The babysitter
Rāwiri looks after the baby and then goes to a competition.
Explanations – passive endings; fish names; Taranaki mountain.
10. The Whānga Family – The gathering
Miriama Smith, a well-known woman, arrives to coach Mārama and her team how to play netball.
Explanations – names for parts of the meeting house; active, passive and stative sentences; words for items around the house; Hinemihi wharepuni.
11. The Whānga Family – The funeral
Aroha and the others go to the funeral.
Explanations – tree names; using ‘taea’; negatives using ‘taea’; words for clothing; tangihanga.
12. The Whānga Family – The Golf
Aroha and Mārama walk in the bush while Kēri and Hone play golf.
Explanations – words for weather; kei a wai?; i a wai?; taku, tō, tana, aku ō, ana; seasons; ngā wāhine.
13. The Whānga Family – The Hāngī
Hone teaches Mārama to make a hāngī and he takes Mārama to the bus to return home.
Explanations – words for sport; saying who owns something; words for food; Māori leadership.
Explanation
This thirteen-part serial has been designed for beginner and intermediate learners to develop listening comprehension skills. The serial has an urban setting and uses everyday language. Episodes are based on themes from the textbook Te Kākano. The drama serial and related activities have been designed to complement the textbook, study guide, CDs and podcasts of Te Whanake 1 Te Kākano. Ideally, learners who have already some knowledge of the language will gain the most from watching each episode of the serial. If you have already studied the first few chapters, or even all of the book, Te Whanake 1 Te Kākano, you will benefit from working in sequence through the activities designed around each episode of the Te Kākano serial, and from watching the grammar and vocabulary teaching points discussed by the presenters. There are also interesting discussions about aspects of Māori culture.
You will meet the Whānga family. Rāwiri lives with his parents, Hone and Kēri, and his grandmother, Aroha. Mārama comes to stay.
