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Maori Battalion 

(Te Hokowhitu-a-tu)

 

Response to Text. Highlight or answer each question to the best of your ability, including important information and detail to your answers.

 

Level One – Skim and Scan

 

1. What did New Zealanders start to call themselves during the First World War?

 

The anzacs were originally called The kiwis

 

1. How did the government encourage Māori to join the war?

 

Some of the maori supported the war effort of the anzacs and zoomed to join up with them but the others did wanted to fight

 

1. What was the war cry used to encourage Māori to fight?

 

The war cry that was used to harden up the maori to fight was the HAKA!!

 

ANZAC Day – Lest We Forget

Response to Text. Highlight or answer each question to the best of your ability, including important information and detail to your answers.

 

Level One: Skim and Scan

1. When did the Gallipoli campaign take place?

1. a) 1914-1915
2. b) 1915-1916
3. c) 1916-1917
4. d) 1914-1918

 

1. What was the main goal of the Gallipoli campaign?

1. a) To capture Constantinople
2. b) To establish a sea route to Russia
3. c) To secure valuable territory in the Middle East
4. d) To invade Russia

 

1. Who were the primary opponents of the ANZACs at Gallipoli?

1. a) The Germans
2. b) The Austro-Hungarian Empire
3. c) The Ottoman Empire
4. d) The British

 

Famous New Zealanders  

Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

 

1. When did Jean Batten first fly across the Atlantic, from Britain to Australia?

 

1. a) 8th April, 1930
2. b) 4th November, 1991 
3. c) 8th May, 1934  
4. d) Last Year

 

2. What was the name of the plane that Batten flew from Britain to Darwin? 

 

1. a) Gipsy Queen       b) Gipsy Moth
2. c) Percival Gull     d) Percival Moth

 

3. How many times did Batten have to land, and take-off on her flight?

 

1. a) 9         b) 14
2. c) 25 d)  8

 

4. Explain the causes for Batten’s first two failed attempts to fly across the Atlantic?

 

→ landed in Syria .

→then crashed again

 

5. True or False: Ernest Rutherford was the first person to climb Mt Everest.

 

1. a) True b) False

 

Polynesian Explorers
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1. When, and where was Tupaia born?

a) Around 1825 in Rā‘iātea
b) Around 1725 in New Zealand
c) Around 1825 in New Zealand
d) Around 1725 in Rā‘iātea

2. Rā‘iātea is a part of which larger group of islands?

a) Samoa b) Tahiti
c) Rapa Nui d) Micronesia

3. What was the name of the British official sent to secure British rule over NZ?

a) William Johnson b) Abel Tasman
c) William Hobson d) Captain James Cook

4. Only about 20 of the painted hoe that were given to Captain Cook in 1769 by Māori survive.

a) True b) False

5. Describe the role that Tupaia had on board the Endeavour – what did he do on Captain Cook’s ship?

→navigator, translator and helper.

6.
WORD
DEFINITION
YOUR OWN SENTENCE
interpreter
It means translator or decipherer
Tupuia was captain cook translator
diplomat
It means some kind of ambassador or a peace maker
Tupuia and James Cook were ambassadors to their crew members .
indigenous
A native or a Aborinalgal being
Tupuia was one of the Aborinalgals of his land.