(Grammar) Emphatic forms

Little did you, like, know, but what I cannot emphasis enough is, you know, that there really and truly are sooooo many many ways to... add EMPHASIS - In. This. L-a-n-g-u-a-g-e-!




Types of emphatic forms

Follow up Kahoot



Hyperbole

1. He’s running faster than the w____.
2. This bag w____ a ton.
3. That man is ___ tall ___ a house.
4. This is the w____ day of my life.
5. The shopping cost me the E______.
6. My dad will k___ me when he comes home.
7. Your skin is softer than s___.
8. She’s as skinny as a tooth____.
9. She was so happy; her smile was a m___ wide.
10. The footballer is the best player of a__ time.
11. I’m so hungry I could eat a h____.
12. It’s im______ to complete this puzzle.
13. Next Friday is n_____ going to arrive.
14. I’ve read this book a h______ times.
15. My hand hurts so much it’s going to d___ off.
16. My brother is s______ than iron.
17. She’s my guardian a____.
18. Your brain is the size of a p___.
19. I’m so sad that I’m drowning in t____.
20. The leaves are d______g in the breeze.

Understatement

The Knight of Understatement (Monty Python)

It's not my best work.

It wasn't my finest hour.

He's not the most handsome chap is he?

You could try a little harder.

That wasn't the cleverest reaction.

It wasn't the best outcome.

We all make make mistakes, I guess.

Look at the pictures and make an understatement:

Or make a deliberately inappropriate (sarcastic) overstatement.

Random Ideas blog practice exercises

Random Idea blog - so and such in emphatic sentences

NZ Culture) Pacific and Maori ideas in NZ Art

Musical tradtitons (Parekowhai)

(7:00-10:00)

1. What does a dynamic culture do, according to the first speaker?

2. What did piano's epitomise in early New Zealand?

3. What kind of piano is used by Michael Parekowhai in his work?

4. What is the title of the work?

5. Where was the piano invented?

6. What is the significance of taking this piano to Italy for the artist?

7. What "complete[s] the work" for the artist?

8. What does the pianist say the piano is a "metaphor" of?

9. In what senses, besides as a musical instrument, is this artwork an "instrument"? 

10 Guitars

1. What kind of song is "Ten Guitars"?

2. What kinds of timbers have been used to make the guitars?

3. "We're all sort of bits and pieces" - how does this statement connect with the way the instruments are made?

4. What's the nice thing about guitars to Michael? What makes a guitar special?

5. What is the function of a guitar in Maori life?

The new Lighthouse sculpture by Michael Parekowhai on Auckland's Queens Wharf. Photo / David St George / Auckland Council

Why do you think sculptor, Michael Parekowhai chose to create this kind of house for the artwork?

The House

Extract from a newspaper article:

"Looking across to the North Shore, where Parekowhai grew up, and east toward Bastion Point, he immediately thought of a house - "a simple modest house that everyone would recognise and that had a huge amount of social, political and cultural history."

Thinking about surrounding office and apartment towers, he decided he didn't want to create another tall structure which would compete with existing city buildings. He wanted something on a human scale, which suggested human activity and humanity."

"We read about state houses and undertook practical research, driving around Auckland, photographing details." - Michael Parekowhai

Discuss: 

Walking around the house, can you see differences from a conventional home? Has anything been changed or adapted? Why?

Discuss:

1. Who was Captain Cook?

2. Why did he come to New Zealand?

3. Is there an equivalent of "Captain Cook" in your country? Someone with the same kind of status?

Looking at Cook, why do you think he's been represented this way? Consider the pose, size, materials, surroundings.

The stars

1. What do you think the stars meant to the people of the Pacific?

2. What did they mean to Cook?

"When deciding on constellations to realise in neon and locating them within the house, we were influenced by the position of the stars during Matariki."

- Micheal Parekowahai

3. Do you know what Matariki is? When and where can you see it in the sky? 

18 Questions

Artist Michael Parekowhai. Photo / Derek Henderson

Tangata Pasifika news story on In Pursuit of Venus


Muliple choice:

1. Artist Lisa Reihana's video installation was inspired by

a) a Polynesian history lesson
b) a piece of wallpaper from France
c) an electric shock

2. The video portrays

a) first encounters between Europeans and Polynesians
b) six years
c) the future

3. Captain Cook was in the Pacific

a) to discover new lands
b) to record the transit of Venus
c) to find a wife

4. The word "infection" speaks to

a) the international pursuit of science
b) sickness and disease
c) being changed forever by new experiences

5. The intention of the work is

a) to reclaim the power to represent the Pacific
b) to enjoy different places
c) to combine performance and art

6. The artist is proud to show the work in Auckland because

a) art lovers will come and see it
b) Maori and Pasifika people will see themselves in it
c) the work was made in Auckland

Eric Lee-Johnson (Hokianga artist)



Watch:

Tukutuku panels bound for New York

1. How many panels are travelling to New York?
2. the panels are destined to grace the NZ wall of the UN building. What does the verb to "grace" mean here?
3. Who helped the Matekino, the expert weaver, complete the tukutuku panels?
4. Which side of the panel did Matekino work on?











Matariki


In 2019, from 25 to 28 June, Matariki will re-appear in the dawn sky – signalling the start of the Māori New Year. It is a time to celebrate new life, to remember those who've passed and to plan for the future.





Watch:

Tukutuku panels bound for New York

In Ancient Greece, the Pleiades were Alcyone, Celaeno, Electra, Maia, Merope, Sterope, and Taygeta, companions of the goddess Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo. Represented here in a medieval painting (c. 850). 

Northern sky




Southern sky




Southern sky

Te Waka o Rangi



Dr Rangi Matamua on Matariki



23:35 25:15

1. Why is Tupuaarangi above Tupuaanuku?

2. Why is Waitii above Waitaa?

3. What are Waipunarani and Ururangi above everything else?

4. What is special about Pohutukawa and Riwaterangi?

He Kuaka - the Godwit


Watch the video and answer the questions:


1. Godwits are "canaries in the coal mine" - what does this expression mean?
2. Where do the birds breed?
3. Where do they go after they come to New Zealand?





He Kuaka

In Spring the kuaka or godwit depart from their breeding nests in the great Siberian and Alaskan tundra and return to the rich feeding grounds provided by Aotearoa’s  tidal flats and coastal marshes. In ancient times this annual arrival of the kuaka was looked as a great event. 

For Maori the kuaka were birds of mystery. They feature prominently in our mythology. It was believed that they came from, or at least passed through, the ancestral home, Hawaiki.

Kua kite te kohanga kuaka?

Who has seen the nest of the kuaka?

Ko wai ka kite I te hua o te kuaka?

Who has ever held the egg of the kuaka?

In some tribal traditions the whakapapa of the kuaka starts with Karihi, grandson of Tangaroa. Karihi is the kuaka’s father and Kauitara the mother. These two are believed to be the parents of all sea birds that fly in flocks, like kuaka, tara, and torea. In the formative period of living creatures on this earth it is said to have been the task of the kuaka to fly to the furthest seas to call together all sea birds to fight for a share of the harvest of river fish claimed by land birds.

Who are Karihi and Kauitara?

A) the parents of all birds
B) the parents of many kinds of sea birds
C) the parents of the land birds



Kupe

Roadside stories: Kupe in the Hokianga

Part 1: 

1. How long ago did Kupe make his exploration of New Zealand?
2. What is Kupe credited with?
3. Who named New Zealand "Aotearoa" and what does it mean?
4. What brought Kupe to Aotearoa?
5. What struck Kupe about the Hokianga?

Part 2:

6. What does Te Pou Ahi mean?
7. What does Hokianga-(nui)-a-Kupe mean?
8. What does Kohukohu mean?
9. What did Kupe leave at the mouth of the harbour?
10. How did he create one of the taniwha?




Kupe memorial anchor stone, and St Lukes Anglican Church, Pakanae marae, Hokianga, Northland, New Zealand

Kupe and Kuaka



Kupe is assumed to have followed the path of the kuaka on his journey to Aotearoa. The traditions of the Ngati Awa and Ngai Tahuhu hold that, when living on one of the small islands in the Pacific, they noticed that the kuaka migrated every year in a southerly direction, returning from the same point. From this evidence the ancestors of these tribes deduced that land was to be found in that direction and two canoes were outfitted for the voyage to what has become known as Aotearoa.   

Kuaka on the wing are known as “waka kuaka”. Their cries are loud as they fly along. During daylight the ancestors followed the course of the flight in their canoes by observing the direction of the flight. In the night they would listen for the cries of the kuaka on their way to the south above the fleet of canoes and so be guided by them

Ko te kaupapa waka kit e moana hoe ai ko te kahui atua kit e ranga rere ai

Whilst the fleet of canoes over the ocean are paddled, the flocks of gods are above in the heavens flying.

1. The connection between the story of Kupe's voyages and the kuaka bird is

A) there is evidence Kupe introduced the birds into New Zealand
B) the birds followed Kupe to New Zealand
C) Kupe followed the birds to New Zealand

2. During the nights of the voyage the ancestors

A) listened for the cries of the birds to guide them
B) ate the birds
C) observed the direction of their flight

Having completed their return journey from the north, a flight of around 12,000km, the kuaka arrive in Aotearoa  in great swarms of whanau clusters.

These clustering flocks have been described as “hau te kapakapa  – the flapping wind”.

As the numbers build they may be numbered in thousands and lend themselves to metaphors. This following saying about a thousand godwits in flight relates to a number of men working with adzes on the creation of a canoe and the flying chips they produce. 

Ka kite a te rere maramara! Me te pukai kuaka!

Like a godwit flock was seen a flight of chips

Te Reigna is the departing place for the spirits of the dead as they follow the setting sun to the world of darkness and their future life in Hawaiki. Their soft murmurings as they take leave has been compared to the rustling of wings and the twitterings of kuaka as they set out, hence this proverb

Me he kahui kuaka

Like a flock of kuaka are the people at Te Reigna

Ralph Hotere

Ralph Hotere Godwit/Kuaka 1977

Ways of looking at this painting:

Notice the progression through the colour spectrum.
Notice the importance of black. Notice the use of symmetry in the colour progression.

Can you see the relationship between a progression from light to dark and back to light and a journey across the surface of the earth?

To concepts to keep in mind:

Te kore - the void. The realm of potential.
Rere - fly, run, floe, disperse, rise, leap, to catch on
Mihi - greet, welcome
Karanga - call out, summon
pōwhiri - welcoming ceremony on a marae.


Black Paintings

1. What "family" of artists does Hotere belong to?
2. How has Hotere's style been described?
3. What is the work painted on?
4. Why, according to the curator, does Hotere like the reflections?
5. Why is Hotere interested in subtraction?

(Upper-Intermediate) Strandbeests

Kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen builds 'strandbeests' from yellow plastic tubing that is readily available in his native Holland. The graceful creatures evolve over time as Theo adapts their designs to harness the wind more efficiently. They are powered only by the wind and even store some of the wind's energy in plastic bottle 'stomachs' to be used when there is no wind.

Watch:

Strandbeests


1. What does the creature need to spring into life?

2. Why don't the creatures have to eat?

3. How long has Theo been evolving his creatures?

4. What are the creatures made from?

5. What was the first challenge for Theo?

6. What is nature's best wind design ever?

7. What does Theo find interesting about trying to make a fully independent creature?



Use these words to summarise the video:

creature - spring into life - new forms of life - live - evolve - live permanently - animal-like - animals - scuttle - offspring - generation - gave them wings - become independent - survive - raise children - to die - to live on


Verbs

a slight breeze

windswept

sand dunes

scuttle

off spring

trial and error

the creator

kick out

to live on


Grammar Review 


Match to make relative clauses


1. an incredible creature

2. in Edenburg, Holland

3. out on the beaches

4. try to make new forms of life

5. you discover

where I work every day

which the real creator must have had

where they can live in the future

that only needs a slight breeze

which keeps me busy



Other clauses: (Purpose-Result-Reason-Achievement)

1. they don't have to eat ____ they gather energy from the wind

2. He's evolving ___ clever designs ____ one day

3. But Theo didn't want to always have to pull his offspring up the beach, ___ the next generation got a propellor.

4. And then ___ give them more running power, he borrowed nature's best wind design ever ___ gave them wings.

5. Then I could die quietly _____ that I will live on

Listen and check

















More Strandbeests

(Upper-Intermediate) How the Fine Art Market is a Scam

Good news, aspiring artists! The world of fine art is manipulated financially AND extremely exclusive!

Watch:

How the Fine Art Market is a Scam


1. Why do big galleries keep their prices a secret?

2. Why do galleries prefer to sell art to the "art elite"?

3. What two ways of driving prices up at auctions are mentioned?

4. How do collectors drive the price up?

5. Why do criminals buy art?

6. How do collectors determine the value of art they donate?