| Achievement objectives
| Possible learning and assessment activities
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| 7.1 Communicate about future plans
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Students could be learning through:
- writing letters to Māori correspondents about plans for the future
- listing their plans for the next holiday period and giving a short talk on the basis of the list
- writing a letter to a friend describing their fitness programme in preparation for an approaching sports competition
- telling a careers adviser about what they plan to do when they leave school
- preparing a curriculum vitae
- writing a letter applying for a position
- finding and consulting Māori language websites relating to potential employment.
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| 7.2 Offer and respond to advice, warnings and suggestions
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Students could be learning through:
- creating captions for cartoons, warning about danger or advising about a problem
- writing letters to magazine problem pages and reading and commenting on the letters written by others
- discussing a problem with a friend
- following a recipe, sharing the food and discussing how it could be improved
- interviewing a teacher, health worker or similar professional about that person’s chosen profession.
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7.3 Express and respond to
approval and disapproval, agreement and disagreement
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Students could be learning through:
- reading short articles and responding to them orally or in writing, expressing approval ordisapproval, agreement or disagreement
- role-playing being with friends who try to persuade them to do a range of things, some of which they want to do and some of which they don’t, and expressing and discussing their reactions
- listening to a speech about what someone (for example, a sportsperson in training) does to try to achieve their goal and discussing their reactions to the speech
- debating issues relating to urbanisation, assimilation and resistance
- checking whether a generalisation (for example, that young people are are expected to do the dishes every evening) applies to all members of a given group of students and using any exceptions as the basis for a short talk about why the generalisation is debatable.
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7.4 Offer and respond to information and opinions,
giving reasons
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Students could be learning through:
- reading a letter or email from a friend and passing on the content in a telephone conversation with another friend
- preparing a questionnaire to survey their friends’ views on a range of social issues, for example, marriage, drug use, teenage pregnancy, and using the results as the basis for a short newspaper article about young people’s opinions on these issues
- viewing an exhibition, show, or performance and, with attention to visual as well as verbal presentation, writing reports for a free community newspaper and a national Māori magazine
- listening to a debate on a health issue, for example, healthy eating or cigarette smoking and identifying facts and opinions
- listing some of the things they do now and commenting on how they think they might feel about their own children doing these things and why
- planning a new school website and responding to suggestions about what it could include
- designing a questionnaire to find out what a group of people their own age think about a range of topics relating to health and well-being and analysing their findings to create a table of responses
- viewing Aotearoa New Zealand tourist videos and commenting on how Māori are presented in them.
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7.5 Read about and recount
actual or imagined events
in the past
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Students could be learning through:
- creating a drama to retell a myth or legend that they have read or heard
- writing an imaginative narrative
- listening to a historical story and retelling it to a friend
- researching a historical event and adapting the material for a radio play
- researching and discussing the experiences of people who have moved from a rural to an urban area and using the information as the basis for a short song or poem.
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