Dr Rangi Matamua on Matariki

Maori astronomer Dr Rangi Matamua on Matariki.  Please listen to this interview, and make notes, organising your notes according to key information and supporting information.  Then I would like you to write a summary of what you have learnt and explain why this knowledge is special and important in New Zealand.

Why you should care about whale poo

Learning objective: To use note taking and processing skills to create a review of the TED talk "Why you should care about whale poo"

Success criteria:
1. We can take notes on the key and supporting information in the talk
2. We can identify five examples of specialist vocabulary and define them.
3. We can write a review of the talk

Asha de Vos, Why we should care about whale poo

Guidelines for writing a review
Introduction: name of presenter and title and what the purpose of the talk is.
Paragraph one: Summarise what we learn about whales
Paragraph two: Explain why humans will benefit from whale poo and whale carcasses
Conclusion: how convinced were you by this talk, and why (relevance to you, level of scientific knowledge, quality of evidence, techniques to make you interested)

News of the world from EAP313

Learning objective: we can listen to world news and process the information to communicate it to a new audience.
Success criteria:
1. We can identify key information and supporting information in an oral text

2. We can synthesise the information to create a 150 word summary.

3. We can create a new text (oral or written) to share this information with Greymouth residents who have not been listening to the news recently.  It could be a podcast, or an article for the Grey Star, or a blog post for a local readership.

It's been an interesting (and sobering) week in world news.  Today we are going to practise our listening skills and then reflect on the content and repackage it for a new audience.

Do now question: Where could we look for oral sources of information?
Paste the links you find on this padlet.