Rongoā Māori making a comeback

 

Kumarahou

Māori vocabulary:

Rongoa - medicine and wellbeing

Karakia - prayer

Tohunga - expert

Tapu - holy

Te Urewera - an ancient forest in the North Island

True or false?

1. Totara bark was used to heal broken bones.

2. Kumarahou is taken for coughs.

3. Tohunga were able to cure many diseases that came with colonists.

4. Tohunga had supernatural powers.

5. Wiremu Doherty was raised by his mother.

6. Rongoa is used in the public health system.

Rongoā Māori making a comeback

Verb patterns

Listen 0.50 -  2.20 and notice whether the "to" or the "-ing" is used to connect these verbs

tend overuse

start show

learn care for

agree be

struggle cope

be accused of claim have

(a law) brought in stop

Other language used:

 

to go _____ground

to make a ____back

a f______n of knowledge

a re____ence

to o___use

to show s___s of infection

susten____

____ly diseases

_____natural powers

to bring ___ a law

to ____ a secret

an exhaustive _____edge

so ___ so

the ___side world

c___ for

l___ser

to be r___er for

Check

to go underground

to make a comeback

a fountain of knowledge

a resurgence

to overuse

to show signs of infection

sustenance

deadly diseases

supernatural powers

to bring in a law

to keep a secret

an exhaustive knowledge

so and so

the outside world

calls for

lesser

to be richer for

Practice using these here