Students from Te Ngahere (including me) did some Summer Learning Journey Activities. For Activity 1, Before we leave the airport and go to our hotel, we will want to learn how to say hello in the language of your country. We had to answer What language does your country use?. We had to use Google translate to read and listen to simple phrases in our country's language!. Then Write 6 -8 useful phrases in our country's language we chose to 'visit' and Record the english version and the translation. If we were going to Canada, United Kingdom or Australia, we had to try and find 6-8 useful slang words/phrases. For example ice block is ice pop in Canada and ice lolly in England. For Activity 2, once we read these phrases we will be ready to leave the airport and head to our hotel. We had to Take a moment and imagine how we might feel if you were standing in the airport in a foreign country and you had to figure out how to communicate with people in a brand new language. Would we be scared? Would we feel confident?. We had to write a short poem that describes how we might be feeling (i.e. excited, happy, scared, nervous, etc) or Take a selfie that captures how you might be feeling and write a descriptive paragraph about how you may be feeling. For the Bonus Activity we had to Translate the following five basic travel phrases into Spanish, German, Malaysian, Japanese, Arabic or Afrikaans. Use the (Google Translate website) to do the translations.
 - When is the next bus?
 - I'm from _______ in New Zealand
 - Sorry, I don't speak (German/ Spanish etc).
 - Which direction is the supermarket?
 - Thank you, have a nice day!
Here is my Summer Learning Journey Activities: Hope you enjoy it!
Ka Kite!