If you want to develop your listening skills, try these tasks as you listen to the text. The answers are at the bottom of this page, after the Vocabulary. Thanks to Natasha Groves for preparing the tasks.
If you want to listen and read, just scroll down to the text.
1. Listening for main ideas
First, just listen to the text, taking notes if you wish. What information can you catch during this first listening?
2. Now listen again and answer the following questions:
- What is taking place this week?
- Where is it taking place?
- What will be shown?
- What does the speaker say about the film Shrek?
- Where can you find more information?
- What are some other films that have been released in te reo Māori?
Text
This week, from 26 to 30 March, the Māoriland Film Festival will be held in Ōtaki in the Kāpiti Coast District. This film festival is an annual celebration of indigenous films from around the world. This year is its 12th year.
The festival will show more than 100 films – feature films and short films – from 86 indigenous nations. It will open with a new Māori film, Kōkā, and will continue the following day with the world premiere of Shrek, Kātahi Te Korokē. This is the te reo Māori version of the Dreamworks’ movie Shrek. There will be movies of all genres, including horror, drama, comedy, documentary, and animation. For more information, visit the Māoriland Film Festival website.
Other movies that have been released in te reo Māori include Moana and Moana 2, Frozen, and The Lion King.
Vocabulary
annual – happening every year
indigenous – relating to people who have lived a long time in a country, before other people arrived
feature film – a full-length film
genre – a type of movie, book, or art
documentary – a film (or TV programme) that gives detailed information about a subject
Answers
1. What is taking place this week?
The Māoriland Film Festival, an annual celebration of indigenous films from around the world
2. Where is it taking place?
In Ōtaki in the Kāpiti Coast District
3. What will be shown?
More than 100 films – feature films and short films – from 86 indigenous nations
4. What does the speaker say about the film Shrek?
It will be shown on the second day of the festival. It’ll be the world premiere of the te reo Māori version of the film.
5. Where can you find more information?
On the Māoriland Film Festival website
6. What are some other films that have been released in te reo Māori?
Moana and Moana 2, Frozen, and The Lion King.