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NEW ZEALAND

This is New Zealand, two islands situated in Oceania.

Watch the following video about New Zealand

This is Auckland, one of the most important cities in New Zealand nonetheless Wellington is its capital.

The Union Jack (the flag of Great Britain) is in the upper left corner of New Zealand's flaghonoring New Zealand's long relationship with the British.

The four stars represent the Crux constellation

beaches

fiords

geysers

volcanoes

Watch the following video about N.Z

Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642. About 300 hundred years ago Captain Cook mapped New Zealand. Captain James Cook

was an English explorer who sailed with his ship all over the world.

When Captain James Cook arrives in New Zealand he meets the Maoris. The Maoris are the first inhabitants in New Zealand.

Watch the following video about their war dance called haka

Before every match, the New Zealand rugby team dances Haka, the maori’s war dance. Watch them in the following video:

Wellington

Cook Strait

•North and South Island

• North Island => volcanism

• South Island => Southern Alps

• The Capital is Wellington

• Cook Strait is a 20 kilometres wide strait that seperates the North and the South Island

Mount RuapehuMount Cook

Taupo Lake is New Zealand’s largest lake

Volcanoes

Geysers

New Zealand is situated on the boundary of 2 tectonic plates Results in volcanoes, geysers, and earthquakes

Sea and mountains cause

-mild temperatures

- high rainfall

- many hours of sunshine

“Four seasons in one day”

Because of unexpected cold fronts or tropical cyclones blowing in

North dominated by: giant Kauri tree largest Kauri is 51 metres high and over 2000 years old

South is dominated by: • Mountain beech forests• Tussock grasslands

The NewZealand Kowhaitree has beautifulyellow flowers

The Pohutukawa tree is New Zealand’s Christmas tree because it blooms in December

Incredible variety of bird lifeSome of the birds became flightless

Kiwi TakaheKea

Kiwi :

• national symbol

• flightless• nocturnal• fierce and

territorial• endangered

Watch the following

video about the kiwi:

Kea :• playfull• extremely

intelligent• passion

for rubber

Takahe• indigo plumage• red beak• believed to be

extinct but rediscovered

Moa• only wingless bird

ever known• tallest bird ever

known• extinct

Tuatara• survived for 100

million years

• beak-headed

• only specy alive in this family of reptiles

• living fossile for paleothologists

• now living on protected offshore islands

Hector’s dolphin is only found in New Zealand waters

Sports

• rugby, cricket, bowls, netball, soccer, motorsport,

golf, swimming, tennis , softball, rowing, yachting,

cycling

• 1. RUGBY : country’s national identity

: All Blacks : HAKA (the KA-MATE)

2. Cricket

3. Horse Racing 4. Extreme sports (bungee jumping, mountaineering,…)

Watch the following videos about New Zealand’s most popular sports:

Sports

The New Zealander Edmund Hillary with his Nepali friend Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers to reach the top of the world, Mount Everest.

Food

• Mix of influences• Distinctiveness : the way NZ eat : kiwistyle• Summer: BBQs “Maori hangi”• Fish and chips• Festivals: Wildwood festival (NZ wild foods), wine and

food festivals

hangi

venison tongue

lamb

kiwi

Films

• Nature + variety in landscape = ideal for adventure films

• King Kong • Chronicles of Narnia• Xena• Hercules• Lord of the Rings

"Little Bit Of Everything”-keith Urban

I wish I could take a cab down to the creek

And hang a disco ball from an old oak tree

Smoke and drink once in a while

Somehow it'd be ______________________

I want a cool chick that'll cook for me

But'll dance on the bar in her tan bare feet

And do what I want when I want and

she'll do it with me

I don't need too much of nothing

I just wanna sing a little chill_____________

Get my groove on

Pour something strong

Down in my drink

Oh, I know

That I don't need a whole lot of anything

I just want a little bit of _________________

Na na na na, na na na na

I just want a little bit of everything

Na na na na, na na na na

Now I don't need a garage full of _________

But I'll take a whole box of Cuban cigars

And I'll smoke 'em nice and slow

Like they were good for me

Don't need a ranch or a big piece of land

But I like to get a little bit of dirt on my______

A big ole couch in a big ole room

Still feels lonely when it's just you

Yes it does

I don't need too much of nothing

I just wanna sing a little chill song

Get my groove on

Pour something strong

Down in my drink

Oh, I know

That I don't need a whole lot of anything

I just want a little bit of everything

Na na na na, na na na na

A little bit of everything

Under the_________

So, when I kick back basking in it

I'll be OK with what I've done

Still having fun

Cause I don't need too much of nothing

I just wanna sing a little chill song

Get me groove on

Pour something strong

Down in my ___________

Oh, I know

That I don't need a whole lot of anything

I just want a little bit of everything

Na na na na, na na na na

I just want a little bit of everything

Na na na na, na na na na

I just want a little bit of everything

Yeah yea yea

Whoa, whoa, oh yeah

Traditional games

Farmer, Farmer May We Cross Your Golden River?

One player is named the farmer and stands in the middle of a designated area of

the playground.

The other players stand behind a line, in a row about ten metres away from the

farmer. A designated ‘home’ area is agreed, usually the opposite end of the play

area.

The players call out, ‘Farmer, Farmer may we cross your golden river?’

The farmer replies, ‘Not unless you have the colour... on.’

Those players lucky enough to have that colour on may cross the playground

safely to the designated home area.

The farmer then counts to five and on five the other players must walk or run

‘home’ whilst the farmer tries to catch them. Anyone who is caught helps the

farmer to choose what colour the players should be wearing next to be able to

cross the river.

The game continues with a different colour each time until the last player is caught

and she becomes the farmer.

Fishes in the sea

The players stand in a circle. They are alternately named Cod, Haddock and

Salmon.

One player is chosen to be the Fisherman. This person is the caller and stands in

the middle of the circle.

When a fish name is called, all the players in that category move around the

outside of the circle in a clockwise direction until they reach their places again.

They are instructed on how to move with various directions. For example, Cod –

high tide, Sharks – coral reef, Plaice – tide turns and so on.

High tide – move quickly.

Low tide – move slowly.

Tide turns – change direction.

Fisherman about – crouch down low to avoid the nets. Sharks – walk backwards.

Coral reef – jump.

The last person back to their place becomes the Fisherman.

Traditional games

The keeper of the treasure

The players form a circle and create a space large enough to represent a door for

the children to run through.

A leader is chosen.

One player is chosen to be the keeper of the treasure. She then sits in the middle

of the circle with her eyes closed and the treasure placed behind her back.

The leader then silently selects a robber by pointing to a player.

The robber then tiptoes as quietly as possible up to the keeper and steals the

treasure from behind the keeper’s back.

Once the keeper realises the robber has the treasure she leaps to her feet and

chases the robber, in a clockwise direction, around the circle, with the intent of

catching him. The aim of the game is either for the keeper to catch the robber or for

the robber to get back to the keeper’s home base in the centre of the circle.

Traditional games