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He reka ake - It’s sweeter

Achievement objective

6.3 Communicate about immediate plans, hopes, wishes, and intentions.

Learning intentions

Students can:

  • identify differences between objects
  • offer a reason for things being different.

Modes

At the end of this lesson, students can:
Pānui Pānui - Reading: Understand specific details in contexts that may contain some unfamiliar language.

TuhituhiTuhituhi - Writing: Write information on familiar topics, referring to past, present and future time and use appropriate writing conventions.

KōreroKōrero - Speaking: Initiate and sustain more extended conversations in both formal and informal contexts.

Materials

Lesson sequence

Discuss with the students the use of the directional particles ‘ake,’ ‘atu,’ and ‘iho’ to express a greater or lesser quality of an object, for example: iti iho, nui ake.

Then hand out a copy of Resource sheet 6I: He reka ake and ask the students to complete it. The students should then ask each other questions, using the sentence structure below, about the differences they have observed.
Ki a koe, he pēhea te ________ i te __________?
Ki ahau nei, he ________ ake/atu/iho te ________ i te ________.
He aha ai?
He ________ nō te ________.

For example:
Ki ahau nei, he reka atu te āporo i te aniana, he kawa nō te aniana.
In my view, apples are sweeter than onions, as onions are sour.

Each pair of students should offer three examples to the class:

  • One using the directional particle ‘atu’
  • One using the directional particle ‘ake’
  • One using the directional particle ‘iho.’

Language to use

Indefinite article to describe an item

He _______. For example: He reka. He kawa.

Particles to express comparative quality

ake For example: He reka ake.
atu For example: He reka atu.
iho For example: He kawa iho.

Possessive particle expressing ‘belonging to’

For example: He huka nō te āporo.



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