Exercise Fourteen

Choose the correct word

Whiriwhirihia te kupu tika

Don’t forget to use commas, question marks, and fullstops and macrons where appropriate (ā,ē,ī,ō, and ū).

Ka karanga atu te koroua pukukino

ngā tamariki,
ka oma atu rātou.

(The grumpy old man yelled at the children and they ran away.)

He

tērā? He tautara
.

(What is that? That is a fishing rod.)

Nā Hāriata ngā waiata

i tito i roto i te pukapuka.

(Charlotte wrote these songs in the book.)

Me hari koe

tō kākahu kaukau
tō tautara hī ika ki tātahi.

(You should bring your swimming togs and your fishing rod to the beach.)

I kōrero te tāne “He

ātaahua ngā wāhine


(The man said “Those women are very beautiful!”)

Ā te 25 o

a Hana Koko haere mai ai
te whare o ia tamariki.

(On the 25 of December, Santa Claus will come to the house of every child.)

pahi rātou haere ai ki te whakataetae poitūkohu.

(They will travel by bus to the basketball competition.)

tō pene
tō pukapuka!

(There is your pen and your book!)

Ka kai rātou i te heihei pirau, ka māuiui

i muri noa iho.

(They all ate the bad chicken and were sick shortly after.)

Kua tāpuketia

te taonga kei raro i te rīpeka.

(Perhaps the treasure is buried under the cross.)