Let me introduce this pal and his friends:
Double-click on the picture above to see it larger.
Look at the pictures and try to answer the following questions orally:
1) Who is this man? Where is he from?
2) Think of adjectives you can use to describe the man in the first picture.
3) What is he doing?
4) What are the men in the second picture doing?
5) Do you know who a Maori is? Do you know who a Kiwi is?
Read the text and do the following activities in your notebook:
In April we visited New Zealand or Aotearoa, a Maori word meaning Land of the Long White Cloud.
New Zealand is an island country in the Pacific Ocean. This country comprises two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) and numerous small islands.
New Zealand first inhabitants were the Maori. They came from the islands hundreds of miles to the North sometime between around 700 and 2000 years ago.
Maori were fierce warriors. They were cannibals and they ate their enemies. Everybody was afraid of the Maori, even the white man -British people- who began to settle in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The settlers had superior weapons, but Maori warriors, fierce and scary, made Europeans sign peace treaties.
1) Who is this man? Where is he from?
2) Think of adjectives you can use to describe the man in the first picture.
3) What is he doing?
4) What are the men in the second picture doing?
5) Do you know who a Maori is? Do you know who a Kiwi is?
Read the text and do the following activities in your notebook:
In April we visited New Zealand or Aotearoa, a Maori word meaning Land of the Long White Cloud.
New Zealand is an island country in the Pacific Ocean. This country comprises two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) and numerous small islands.
New Zealand first inhabitants were the Maori. They came from the islands hundreds of miles to the North sometime between around 700 and 2000 years ago.
Maori were fierce warriors. They were cannibals and they ate their enemies. Everybody was afraid of the Maori, even the white man -British people- who began to settle in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The settlers had superior weapons, but Maori warriors, fierce and scary, made Europeans sign peace treaties.
Much of the Maori art shows bulging stomachs as a warning to enemiesNowadays, the New Zealand population is European, and the indigenous Maori is the largest minority. People from New Zealand love to be called Kiwis.
Maori fit well in the European culture, but they are still proud of their culture.
Maori tattoo their faces and bodies as in the picture above, and they have a tradicional dance -haka-, where the warriors dance around, show their tongues and open their eyes scarily.The New Zealand national rugby team (the "all blacks" because their uniform is black) love to do the haka at their opponents before a match.
0) Use the Dictionary (click on) if you don't understand a word.
1) Answer the previous questions in your notebook.
- The most part of the New Zealand population is:
a) Maori b) European
- Is Aotearoa New Zealand?
- Where is New Zealand?
- Who started to live in New Zealand around 200 years ago?
You can see some beautiful volcanos in New Zealand
3) Search for a picture of the following topics in the Internet. Use Google and the picture option.
- the New Zealand flag
- James Cook, the first British who arrived to New Zealand
- Maori art (wood carving)
- Maori tattoes
- a kiwi (bird)
- a kiwifruit
- a famous Kiwi person
4) Describe the following picture (Who are they? Tell about the clothes they are wearing. What do you think about their look? Etc.)
- Si vols sentir un poc de música maori només tenc que clickar en els següents enllaços:
0 (Traditional love song)
1 (Haka by the Rugby Team)
0 (Traditional love song)
1 (Haka by the Rugby Team)
Did you like what you have learnt about New Zealand?
