Choose an Episode
Each episode has its own relevant activities and exercises allowing people to practise and develop language skills. In each block of five episodes, viewers learn vocabulary based around a theme and small number of sentence structures.
Episode exercises recap key elements of each show and reinforce what is being learnt. These are activated online after each show has been broadcast on Māori Television. Check online at www.maoritelevision.com for programme times.
Kia ū, kia mau ki Tōku Reo!
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Episode 1
Greetings
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Episode 2
Let's revise greetings and vocab
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Episode 3
How to greet people using personal names
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Episode 4
Let's revise how to greet people using personal names
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Episode 5
Let's review your first week of Tōku Reo
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Episode 6
Special terms of address, words like friend and mate
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Episode 7
Special terms of address - there's a whole heap of them in te reo Māori
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Episode 8
More greetings and use of mā
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Episode 9
Use of mā when you want to greet more then one person
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Episode 10
Two weeks of grammar and vocab to recap!
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Episode 11
How are you? Let's learn how to answer that question
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Episode 12
Listen to native speakers and review how to reply to "Kei te pēhea koe?"
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Episode 13
Let's learn how to say " Who are you?" and more responses to "How are you?"
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Episode 14
More revision on how to ask "Who are you?" and more words to learn
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Episode 15
Re-cap on asking somebody's name, telling someone your name as well letting somebody know how you are
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Episode 16
More revision of "Who are you?"
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Episode 17
More revision whānau. Ko wai tō ingoa? What's your name?
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Episode 18
More conversational language and we even cover farewells
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Episode 19
Learn a few odd rules for te reo that you just have to learn and be done with
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Episode 20
We're doing revision whānau. Asking people's names and saying more goodbyes!
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Episode 21
Where are you from? We're looking at how to ask and answer that question
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Episode 22
Let's re-cap! ‘Nō hea koe?’ or ‘Where are you from?’
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Episode 23
Today we’re going to look at the word ‘ia’ and how it’s used when we’re asking people where they are from
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Episode 24
Let's review our learning about 'Where are you from?' and don't forget to keep up with the kupu hou.
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Episode 25
TEST time whānau! How did you go with today's test episode?
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Episode 26
Today we learn how to find out about someone's family.
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Episode 27
Let's recap grammar and vocab from yesterday. It's all about whānau.
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Episode 28
Let's gain some pronunciation confidence with Māori place names!
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Episode 29
Who are your parents? Who are your children? Stay tuned to recap family connections, and our top 10 kupu!
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Episode 30
Let's review our grammar around family connections and practice place names we learnt this week.
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Episode 31
Today we learn how to ask and to say what something is.
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Episode 32
Let's review what we covered yesterday about asking and replying to "what's that?"
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Episode 33
Let's learn how to ask 'How many?'
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Episode 34
More revision on asking how many things there are or 'E hia...'
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Episode 35
End of another week whānau, and it's time for revision.
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Episode 36
So far we have covered two ways of asking and saying what something is. In this episode you'll learn another way.
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Episode 37
More revision around 'What's that?' and clarifying where items are positioned.
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Episode 38
Today we build on our grammar point and learn how to ask how many 'people' there are.
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Episode 39
More revision to ask someone how many people there are.
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Episode 40
Revision for the week. 'What's that?' and 'How many?' - These are the key grammar points.
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Episode 41
What's this? What's that? More revision around these grammar patterns.
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Episode 42
It's revision time everyone. More practise on 'What's that over there?'
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Episode 43
Today we're going to learn how to ask someone where they're going and about making connections.
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Episode 44
More revision to ask someone where they're going to.
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Episode 45
Revision of grammar and vocab for this week. Stay tuned!
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Episode 46
Today's show is all about 'us' and 'them'.
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Episode 47
More revision on when to use tāua.
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Episode 48
Study, study, and more study so you're ready for the test at the end of the week!
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Episode 49
One night to go before the big test whānau - go hard!
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Episode 50
TEST time whānau.
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Episode 51
The beginning of our episode recaps everything we've learnt so far. Kia kaha!
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Episode 52
We continue with more revision whānau of all that we've learnt so far. Stay tuned.
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Episode 53
How are you doing whānau? More revision heading your way. Kia kaha!
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Episode 54
Recap on your grammar and vocab from previous weeks.
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Episode 55
Great work whānau! That revision is paying off. Kia kaha!
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Episode 56
More revision on what we've covered in earlier episodes. Practice is the key. Kia kaha whānau!
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Episode 57
Awesome whānau. Keep up with the review sessions.
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Episode 58
Recap and review more grammar and vocab. You're doing great whānau!
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Episode 59
Practice makes perfect whānau. More revision of the last few weeks. Kia kaha!
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Episode 60
Too much whānau! Today marks another milestone of revision of previous episodes. Stay tuned!
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Episode 61
We learn another variation of how to ask someone where they're going.
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Episode 62
Kia ora e hoa. It's the second show of the week, which means revision of last night's episode.
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Episode 64
That all important revision from yesterday's episode.
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Episode 65
Tonight is a revision of everything we've covered this week. Good luck!
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Episode 66
We've got another addition to the 'Kei te haere koe ki hea?' sentence structure. Revision time!
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Episode 67
Nau mai, haere mai. It's our revision episode.
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Episode 68
Today, we're continuing our language course with the 'Me' sentence structure.
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Episode 69
Today's lessons revisit the 'Me' grammar point and give you some practice using personal names with this grammar.
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Episode 70
It's the fifth episode for the week and that can only mean one thing - recap!
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Episode 71
It's the first lesson of the week. A new week, some new grammar and some new words.
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Episode 72
If you've been doing the revision exercises you'll have a head start!
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Episode 73
We're now into the second half of the week and we have a new grammar point for you. Enjoy!
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Episode 74
It's episode 74. Congratulations. Don't forget, all these building blocks you're learning add up to fluency in the long run - so hang tough.
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Episode 75
The last chance to revise for the week. Give it heaps (another test in 3 weeks!)
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Episode 76
Today is our first encounter with 'a' and 'o'.
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Episode 77
More 'a' and 'o' practice. This is one of the fundamental building blocks of the reo, so go hard!
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Episode 78
Today we take a look at the 'o' category.
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Episode 79
Tonight we carry on our foray into the 'a' and 'o' categories. There are a lot of rules to learn e hoa, so let's get started.
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Episode 80
We're wrapping up this week's lessons on the 'a' and 'o' categories.
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Episode 81
Let's learn the plural versions of last week's 'a' and 'o' categories.
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Episode 82
More work e kare on 'a' and 'o'. Tonight, we revise yesterday's lessons.
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Episode 83
Kia ora and welcome to today's lessons - 'a' and 'o' and asking where someone's home is.
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Episode 84
Have you ever wanted to learn how to ask someone where their home is? That's the focus of today's mahi.
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Episode 85
Where is your home? Kei hea tōu kāinga? Let's continue to build on this grammar point whānau!
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Episode 86
We're carrying on our quest to learn how to ask where someone's home is. Today, we add personal names.
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Episode 87
Test on Saturday whānau, so here's yesterday's and today's learning again.
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Episode 88
More work on 'kei hea' coming up. Study, study, study, e hoa. Test in two days!
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Episode 89
You've made it to episode 89. Last chance to cram e hoa mā!
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Episode 90
Congratulations on completing today's test. Here's some more exercises to help reinforce what was covered.
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Episode 91
Two weeks of our course left to go, so get stuck in whānau. Today, revision of the second half of our course.
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Episode 92
Another day, and another step closer to the end of the course e hoa. Take the opportunity to really nail these lessons!
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Episode 93
Today, it's the grammatical structure 'Ki te aha?', as well as some words covered in earlier episodes.
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Episode 94
Today we're revising the word 'Me' for commands (handy word to know).
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Episode 95
Time to revise the sentence structure '...rāua ko...'
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Episode 96
How to say 'The branches of the tree' using 'o'.
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Episode 97
It's time to revise some lessons about the 'a' category.
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Episode 98
Tonight, we carry on our assault on the 'a' and 'o' categories.
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Episode 99
Today's show looks at more kinship terms using the 'a' and 'o' categories.
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Episode 100
Kia ora, and congratulations on making it to the last show of the series. Here's some final revision. Good luck with your language journey, and we hope to be speaking the reo with you in the near future!
Show Components
Part 1 – GRAMMAR:
The grammar segment begins with the presenters explaining a sentence construction that utilises the vocabulary that will be taught in segment two.
They interact to demonstrate the sentence constructions followed by graphical inserts and field footage ‘role-plays’ to reinforce the lesson.
At the end of the grammar segment is an interview with a kaumatua explaining the meaning of a colloquial expression peculiar to a certain tribe.
Part 2 – VOCABULARY:
Each week’s vocabulary relates to a particular theme. The presenters are the first to teach the words in the studio.
Based on best practise learning techniques, each word is pronounced first, followed by it’s written form. After each set of 5 words is introduced, they are presented again, but this time with a picture so the audience learns vocabulary in context.
The vocbulary section finishes with an insert of Erima Henare, the chairman of The Māori Language Commission, teaching a newly coined word related to the theme for the week.
Part 3 – ACTIVITIES:
The activities segment is where the audience gets to put what they’ve learnt into practise.
Exercises and games incorporate learning from the first two segments of the show, and range from multi-choice, to freeze frame activites using inserts from earlier in the show.
Across the whole series, a large variety of these activities are used to keep the learning fresh, and the audience engaged.
At the end of this segment, Professor John Moorfield himself provides language learning tips to help the student get the most from the course.
