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Levels 7 and 8 table
At levels 7 and 8 - review and enrich knowledge and experience of all the forms previously introduced. Aim for your learners to thoroughly understand the major structures of Māori. Include the following:
- A good understanding of the full range of subordinate clauses: adverbial clauses, complement or noun clauses, and relative (adjective) clauses.
- The ability to both recognise and produce a full range of structures in spoken Māori.
- The ability to both recognise and produce a full range of structures in written Māori.
- A developing ability to talk about the structure of Māori, using appropriate metalanguage or technical terms.
- A wide range of idiomatic expressions – you may wish to refer to Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, 1999. He Kohinga Kīwaha. Wellington: Reed, as a source of these.
- A good understanding of the typical differences between spoken and written Māori.
- A more sophisticated knowledge of the range of types of spoken and written texts in Māori, both formal and informal, and how these are structured (for example: waiata, karanga, whaikōrero but also the structure of typical communicative events such as pōhiri, tangihanga, meetings).
- The ability to produce a wide range of text types in Māori with flair and accuracy.
| Levels 7 and 8 | References to Harlow, 2001 | Harlow pages | References to Head, 1989 (available online) | Head pages |
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| Adverbial clauses of time: review those introduced at levels 5 and 6, and introduce the remaining types here | Clauses of time | 239-244 | ||
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Adverbial phrases and clauses - review all types. Provide learners with rich opportunities to notice the range of ways in which adverbial information is conveyed in both written and spoken texts, and to identify which types of form convey different adverbial meaning (for example: time, place, manner, purpose, etc.) | Adverbial clauses Nominalisations | 239-257 206-215 | ||
| Relative clauses - introduce the possessive strategy | The possessive strategy | 269 | ||
| Relative clauses based on objects |
Relative clauses summary table relative clauses based on objects | 272 272-274 | ||
| Relative clauses - headless | Headless relative clauses | 274-276 | ||
| Complement (noun) clauses: subordinate clauses which are used as the subject or object of a verb | Complement clauses | 235-239 | ||
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Introduce a range of idiomatic expressions, for example: me kore ake ‘to be fortunate’ Me kore ake a Manu hei hoa mōku. |