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Learning activities

You do not have to use all the activities suggested below. Choose from and adapt them to suit your students’ needs.

Introducing the text

Display a copy of the cover and the title page. Ask the students to tell you in Niue what sports they can see. For the sports they don’t know, say them in Niue and write them on the whiteboard.

Discuss the title. Ask the students to make predictions about what they think it means. Confirm that it means “One More Sport”.

Display the illustration on page 2 and ask the students to discuss what they can see and what they think is happening. Ask them to share any Niue they know to describe the illustration (for example, they might know faiaoga) and write these words and phrases on the whiteboard.

Dictation

Dictation is a useful activity for improving the students’ understanding of sound–spelling relationships and building good pronunciation. Read aloud the sentences on page 2, pausing at the end of each phrase to give students time to write. In English, tell them to add punctuation where appropriate.

Hand out copies of page 2 for the students to check what they have written and correct their own work.

Listening comprehension

Have the students listen to you read the text or to a recording (by a speaker of vagahau Niue) and write down the names of the sports they hear. You could tell them to write either:

  • the names of all the sports in the order they occur
  • the names of the sports each girl talks about.

You may need to repeat the listening so that your students can complete their task. Tell them they will check their responses as they read.

Reading the text

Have students work in pairs to read and discuss the story page by page. After each page, discuss their ideas as a group and write up relevant language and cultural aspects. As you work through the text, support the students to:

  • check the glossary and the previous units in Haia! An Introduction to Vagahau Niue for words and expressions that they don’t know or can’t remember
  • describe the illustrations
  • make connections between the illustrations and the written text
  • summarise the main ideas on each page – who is mentioned and which sports they play or like
  • identify language and cultural practices (for example, formulaic expressions, the sports discussed, sentences for expressing likes) and the values associated with them.

As a class, identify key unfamiliar words or expressions (in the text or the discussion). Write the words and expressions on the board.

Support students to notice patterns of language, for example, Fiafia e matua taane haaku ke he feua kakau/my dad likes swimming; Ko e heigoa e tau feua sipote ne pelē he magafaoa haau?/what sports do your family play? After reading, you can show students how they can use these patterns in other contexts. Provide opportunities for them to practise and then use the language to achieve a communicative purpose.

After reading

Favourite sports

Have students choose a country, research (in English) the popularity of that country’s different sports, and prepare a short presentation in vagahau Niue. Offer guidance on how to find the information as well as a framework for presenting their information in Niue. You could ask them to state three or four sports that the people of their chosen country like, the favourite sport of the country, and (if they can find information about this) any sports the people don’t like. Students could create a poster showing their findings in vagahau Niue and then use the poster as a visual aid to their oral presentation to the class or to a smaller group. As the students listen to their classmates, have them record each country and its sports in a table with the four headings.

Motu/Country

Sipote ne fiafia a lautolu ki ai/sports they like

Sipote mahuiga/favourite sport

Sipote ne nākai fiafia a lautolu ki ai/sports they don’t like

Niue sports

Find out if there is a community event in your area where tā kilikiki or other Niue sports are played. Either visit the event with your class or invite some community members to your school to organise some Niue games.

The students could plan questions to ask about the significance of these sports in aga fakamotu. They could also discuss how the sports are similar to or different from sports in their own culture(s).

Reflecting on learning

Help the students to review their goals for working with this text, individually and as a class. You can help them reflect not only on their learning but also on how they learn. Students could share these reflections with another student, with a small group of students, or with the whole class. As a prompt, ask the students questions such as:

  • What strategies helped you to understand the story?
  • What will help you to remember the new language?
  • How can you use the new language in other contexts?
  • Can you identify significant aspects of new learning about aga fakamotu?

For example, a student might say: “I can now talk about which sports I like and dislike in vagahau Niue.”

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