: Ngä Rongo Körero o te Wä o te Ao Whänui
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Approach: One to one 
Focus:   Awareness and knowledge of world current events
Resources:  Käore he rauemi
Kupu:
Questions/instructions: 
He maha ngä kaupapa whakahirahira e puta ana i te ao whänui i tënei wä tonu.
 
% responses
1. Körerohia mai ëtahi kaupapa whakahirahira e toru e puta ana i te ao whänui i tënei wä. He kaupapa ënei e puta mai ana i ngä nüpepa, i ngä reo irirangi, i te pouaka whakaata hoki.

First important thing:

Location/Focus:

international event

30

national event

30

regional event

2

local event

9

Timing:

currently (happening at the time of task administration)

46

recently (happened in the 3 months previous to task administration)

27

Activity category:

natural event (e.g. natural disaster, weather, a whale was saved)

18

social event (e.g. making a movie, visitors to NZ)

11

political event

27

personal event (e.g. winning an award, birthday celebration)

5

sporting

9

economic prices (e.g. oil/petrol prices)

0
Second important thing:
Location/Focus:

international event

18

national event

32

regional event

2

local event

7
Timing:

currently (happening at the time of task administration)

34

recently (happened in the 3 months previous to task administration)

23
Activity category:

natural event (e.g. natural disaster, weather, a whale was saved)

7

social event (e.g. making a movie, visitors to NZ)

25

political event

9

personal event (e.g. winning an award, birthday celebration)

9

sporting

9

economic prices (e.g. oil/petrol prices)

2
Third important thing:
Location/Focus:

international event

9

national event

21

regional event

5

local event

5
Timing:

currently (happening at the time of task administration)

33

recently (happened in the 3 months previous to task administration)

14
Activity category:

natural event (e.g. natural disaster, weather, a whale was saved)

5

social event (e.g. making a movie, visitors to NZ)

7

political event

7

personal event (e.g. winning an award, birthday celebration)

7

sporting

9

economic prices (e.g. oil/petrol prices)

5
2. Köwhiria tëtahi o ënei kaupapa, ka körero mai ai i ngä mea katoa o taua kaupapa e möhio nä koe.

How much information?
(in additon to responses given in question 1)

able to give 3 or more valid points about event

45

able to give 1-2 valid pieces of information

23

Quality of explanation:

clear

52

muddled

14

not at all

34

Commentary:
 Seventy-one percent of the students were able to identify at least one current event (question 1) and about half of the of the students were able to talk clearly and in some detail about that event (question 2). Fewer students were able to identify two events (59 percent) or three events (39 percent). Many students talked about national, regional or local events rather than international events.
 
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