Te Kura Maori Apps

KURAKa kuraina koe e au! I’m gonna school you…and you, and you! Soare you up to the challenge?This innovative Māori language app allows you to compete againstfriends while battling for language supremacy.How the game worksThere are five different games to play in this app,including:Puna Kupu – The objective of this game is to increase yourvocabulary. You will hear the correct pronunciation and see thenames of images used throughout the rest of the games.E Rua, e Rua – Use your knowledge from the vocabulary practiceto correctly match the word to its image or vice versa before thetime limit runs out.Ihumanea – This multi-choice game aims to increase yourknowledge by introducing various sentence structures.Tohu Kupu – Use your knowledge from Ihumanea to correctly formthe Māori sentence, which is given to you in English totranslate.Kīkiki Pāoro – Answer the NZ general knowledge questions bykicking the rugby ball over the correct goal post.Other cool things- You can build your own alter-ego (Toikura) from a range ofoptions.- There is a scoreboard that displays the name, alter-ego(Toikura) and school of those who reign supreme.- There is also single player and multi-player options to testyour knowledge against others.- Create your own custom folders to play in all 5 games.- Share your folders with others and also accept their foldersto play on your device.

Test your Māori language vocab skills withPuna! Are you up for the challenge?Race against the clock, score points and save your preciouswater. Then build your own vocab sets to test your whānau andfriends.Who will reign supreme and be a vocab star?Kia Rite! (Be Ready!).Then take a waka (canoe) ride over to the motu (island) to test themind, the memory, the hand and the eyes in a variety of wero(challenges).View your progress throughout all of the modules in Kauneke(Progress) and get ideas about how you can use the vocabulary ineveryday situations and sample phrases within the TeachingGuide.Kia Rite! (Be Ready!)Build your vocabulary in a range of categories within this module.You can also record your own voice and practise forming letters andspelling words.To do in this module:- Swipe through the cards seeing and hearing a variety of words andpictures.- Record your own voice, temporarily, and compare with the defaultaudio.- Share the audio recording via email.- Change the audio or word to the existing cards via the Tautuhinga(Settings) function.- Practise writing the word in the guided or un-guided mode.- Select from a range of icons and colours to write with (taiaha,patu, butterfly, truck).- Play back the un-guided writing.Wero Hinengaro (Challenge the Mind)This module will test your knowledge and recall of the vocabularylearned in Kia Rite! This module is timed and you earn points forselecting the correct word or picture, but be careful as points arealso lost for incorrect answers. More icons are added as progressthrough the rounds.To do in this module:Play different modes:Picture mode – a word will show at the top of the screen and youhave to select the appropriate picture from the optionspresented.Text mode – a picture will show at the top of the screen and youhave to select the appropriate word from the optionspresented.- Turn the audio on to help you sound out the word.- Turn the audio off to make it harder.Wero Mahara (Challenge the Memory)Race against the clock, a challenger or the computer to match cardsand also earn points along the way. Be aware that layers will comefrom below as you progress through the levels and points are lostfor incorrect matches, so watch carefully.To do in this module:Play in three different ways:- Independently- 2 player (on the one device/computer)- against the computerThere are also different modes to match the cardsincluding:- picture – picture- picture – word- word – wordSelect the level of difficulty – easy, medium, hard.Wero Tuhi (Challenge the Written)Test your listening and spelling skills in this challenge. Thereare hints to help with those tricky words as more letters areadded, than what is required to spell the word, as you progressthrough the levels.To do in this module:Play in a range of modes including:- Seeing an image of the word only- Seeing an image of the word and hearing the word- Hearing an audio of the word only- No clues at allThere are hints that the player can use if they get stuckWero Whatu (Challenge the Eyes)Challenge your observation skills by locating items hidden within10 different scenes on the island. The words within each of thecategories have been split between the scenes and you have to findthe hidden items before the time runs out. Move the picture around,zoom in and zoom out to find the items and if it gets too hard,there are hints to help.To do in this module:Play in three modes including:- Seeing an image of the hidden item- Seeing the word of the hidden item- Hearing the audio of the hidden itemThere are hints to use if it gets too hard which sparkle in thearea where the item is hidden.Find all of the hidden items within each scene (go to theKauneke (Progress) page to find out how you are progressing).