Opening the course…
Friendly conversations, useful expressions and Ricky’s questionable decisions. Begin at Lesson 1; each new story will build on what came before.
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Ricky visits the wrong house and stays for tea. Practise a first Māori conversation: greetings, wellbeing, drink offers and polite choices.
Ricky returns to help with a wardrobe and finally exchanges names. Practise Māori introductions, name questions and a friendly goodbye.
A fish-shaped kite, a runaway hat and some welcome help. Practise finding things, asking someone to pass them and requesting help in Māori.
Ask someone to repeat or slow down, say whether you understand, and locate or request scissors.
Practise simple destination plans, questions about another person’s plan and practical conversation repair in te reo Māori.
Choose, request and repair in two supported Māori conversations, with plans for today and tomorrow.
Separate origin and home, then learn a short saying about past and future.
Introduce a companion, address one or two people, find a comb and distinguish who is included in a two-person plan.
Ownership questions, self/listener/named owner and a bounded A/O discovery.
Quantities1–10,questions,requests and a people-count discovery.