Ideas & Resources for Māori Language Week

Māori Language Week 2013 Games and Resources

He Papa-Whakataetae mō Ngā Wāhi Māori: Aotearoa Road Trip

Take your students, co-workers or family on a road trip around Aotearoa. On the journey they will learn to recognise and name twenty well known Aotearoa / New Zealand towns and cities in Te Reo Māori.

• Aotearoa Road Trip Board Game

 

Free PDF Download: Public Signs in Te Reo Māori

• Level 1: Simple Signs, up to 3 words
• Level 2: Signs containing up to 7 words

Free Lesson Plan – Working with Numbers in Te Reo Māori

This lesson plan is designed to be used in conjunction with Buratino’s Māori Number Cards and will help learners to master the use of Māori numbers out of sequence.

• Free working with numbers lesson plan

Free PDF Download: Everyday Food Items in Māori

•  Te Mahi Kai – The Language of Food

Māori Language Week 2013 Events:

• Christchurch Libraries
• Auckland Libraries
• MoE Māori Language Week Forum

History of Māori Language Week:

• www.nzhistory.net.nz – History of Maori Language Week

Pronunciation Guides:

Ngā Ingoa o Aotearoa: an oral dictionary of Māori placenames

Recorded in 1984-94, the speakers are 132 elders and experts from each area. The names are in 177 tracks corresponding to “zones” (regions) of New Zealand, in alphabetical order on each track.

There are approximately 10,200 names!

• Ngā Ingoa o Aotearoa Internet Archive
  
• Ngā Ingoa o Aotearoa Website

100 Māori words every New Zealander should know

• www.nzhistory.net.nz – 100 Māori words

Kōrero Māori Placenames Map

Map with NZ place names in Māori and English, click on each to hear the pronunciation:

• www.korero.maori.nz – Placenames Map

Whakahuatange o te reo Māori: Māori Language Pronunciation

Maori Pronounciation guide produced by University of Otago. Listen to various spoken sounds (sound quality not good)

• Whakahuatange o te reo Māori

Learn how to pronounce Māori

• www.maorilanguage.net

Dictionaries:

• Māori Dictionary Project
• Ngato Dictionary

Learning Te Reo Maori, Exercises & Lessons:

• Māori Language Phrase Drills
• Series of online modules complementing Te Kākano, the first in the Te Whanake series of textbooks for learning Te Reo: Te Kākano Online Modules
• Tōku Reo Television Show online interactive exercises, podcasts and a forum: www.tokureo.maori.nz

 Cool Stuff:

• University of Waikato ‘macroniser’: Ratonga Whakaora Tohutō Māori: www.nzdl.org – Te Reo Māori macroniser
• Make your own online story book in Te Reo: Te Reo Books
• Youtube: Talk Māori: www.youtube.com/TalkMaori

Learning Te Reo Facebook Groups

• Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, Maori Language Week
• Lets Learn Māori In Australia

Maori Proverbs: