Ka Mau te Wehi! Unit 4 Waea mai - Ring me

The purpose of this unit of work is to learn to count and to ask who and where someone is.

About this resource

This unit focuses on:

Suggested curriculum link: 1.4, 1.7
Learning intentions: Learn how to: count from 1 to 100, ask who and where someone is, say this and that
New words: Tahi, rua, toru, whā, rima, ono, whitu, waru, iwa, tekau, tekau mā tahi, rua tekau, kotahi rau, ko wai? tēnei/tēnā, ko [name] tēnei/tēnā

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Ka Mau te Wehi! Unit 4: Waea mai - Ring me

See Materials that come with this resource to download Unit 4 Waea mai - Ring me (.pdf).

Learning intentions

In this unit ākonga will:

count from 1 to 10
learn the numbers from 11 to 100
learn how to count beyond 100
learn how to ask who and where someone is.

Success criteria

Before commencing the unit, the kaiako will discuss the learning intentions with ākonga and together agree on appropriate success criteria.

Resources

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Transcripts for Unit 4 (.pdf)
Unit 4 worksheet A (.pdf)
Unit 4 worksheet B (.pdf)
Unit 4 worksheet C (.pdf)

Activity 1

Learning intention

Ākonga will learn how to say the numbers one to ten in Māori.

Watch: Unit 4 Scene 1 - Hana texts Dylan for Haami’s phone number

In this scene, Hana asks for Haami’s phone number.

Ask ākonga if they already know some Māori numbers. Give them a chance to say them if they do.

If there are ākonga who do not know any numbers, write the Māori words for the numbers from one to ten on the whiteboard. Ask ākonga to recite these in order and backwards until they are confident.

Play the counting circle game. Ask ākonga to stand in a circle. One person starts the game by saying tahi (one). The person to his or her right says rua (two), and the next person says toru (three), and so on around the circle until tekau (ten), is reached. The person who is the tenth must sit down, and the game continues with the next person saying tahi, and so on. The counting continues around the circle, with every tenth person sitting down. The winner is the last person standing.

Have the ākonga complete Unit-4-worksheet-A (.pdf).

Ask ākonga to write the Māori words for the numbers from one to ten in their Wehi books.

Watch: He kōrero whakamārama - Use of waea pūkoro

The Māori word for cell phone is explained in this video.

Activity 2

Learning intention

Ākonga will learn the numbers beyond ten.

Explain to ākonga how numbers greater than ten are made up.

11 = 10 – tekau, plus – mā, 1 – tahi = tekau mā tahi
12 = 10 – tekau, plus – mā, 2 – rua = tekau mā rua
20 = two – rua tens – tekau = rua tekau
30 = toru tekau
57 = 50 plus 7 – rima tekau mā whitu
100 = kotahi rau – one hundred

Give ākonga opportunities to practise hearing these numbers by playing bingo. Provide each student with a copy of Unit 4 Worksheet B. You can find the worksheet in the resources section above.

Ākonga place an “X” over the number as it is called out. The winner calls “wharewhare” (house) when he or she has marked off all the numbers.

Play the counting circle game but vary it by choosing a number: for example, three. Every person who is a multiple of three has to sit down: for example, tahi, rua, toru (toru sits down), whā, rima, ono (ono sits down), and so on. To make this game even more challenging, choose multiples of two numbers.

Activity 3

Learning intention

Ākonga will learn to use Māori numbers in everyday contexts.

Watch: Unit 4 Scene 2 - Hana texts Haami

Ask ākonga to complete Unit 4 Worksheet C, writing the numbers in Māori. You can find the worksheet in the resources near the top of this page.

Tell ākonga to adapt the worksheet to suit or add more lines with additional information.

Activity 4

Learning intention

Ākonga will learn how to ask who someone is and where someone is.

Before watching the video clip, ask ākonga to see if they can identify the words that Haami says to ask, “Is that Hana?”, and the words Hana uses to answer.

Watch: Unit 4 Scene 3 - Haami rings Hana

Discuss the following sentences used in the scene:

Ko Hana tēnā? – Is that Hana?
Ko Hana tēnei. – This is Hana.
Ko wai tēnā? – Who’s that?
Kei whea/hea koe? – Where are you?

Explain that whether “hea” or “whea” is used depends on where someone comes from – their tribal dialect.

Askl ākonga to make up a telephone conversation with a partner. Remind them to start with a greeting and perhaps their telephone number, and to ask Ko wai tēnā? – Who is that? and Kei whea/hea koe? – Where are you? Take turns at asking and answering the questions.