Strong fit
Students use greetings and farewells appropriately for different
contexts, including one person, two people, and larger groups.
How this handout aligns
The page explicitly contrasts greeting forms by audience and situation. That gives kaiako a
clean way to teach that context matters, rather than collapsing every interaction into one
generic phrase.
Context-appropriate greetings
Farewells
Audience awareness
Best matched to novice learning-languages expectations around using
greetings and farewells appropriately in familiar contexts.
Strong fit
Students initiate and sustain short spoken encounters using highly
practised questions, statements, and responses.
How to use this resource
The paired question-and-response frames help students move beyond isolated greetings into a
short exchange. That supports progression from greeting to conversation rather than stopping at
a single word.
Spoken encounters
Highly practised contexts
Short exchanges
Useful when kaiako want students to rehearse a manageable conversation
rather than only chorus-repeat vocabulary.
Kaiako safeguard
Greetings and introductions in te reo Māori support belonging and
whanaungatanga, so the cultural purpose should stay visible in the teaching sequence.
Teacher-only note
Use the tikanga note and modelled context choices to keep the resource grounded. Avoid teaching
the forms as neutral translation only, especially when local welcome or mihi practices are part
of the wider school culture.
Whanaungatanga
Manaakitanga
School culture
This page is teacher-only because the cultural framing and curriculum
reasoning belong with kaiako, not on the student worksheet.