Ghsmehma Amritsar Maori Villages

3rd Batch

Roll No. --- 85

Class---12th Subject---General English Name Of The Topic---Maori Villages

Prepared by---Tina Rampal Govt. High School Mehma District---Amritsar

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This lesson summarizes the living of Maori Villages. The words which are underlined are difficult words which are linked to their meanings. To know the meanings of difficult words please hold ctrl key from the keyboard and then click. It will show you the meaning of that

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word and then to go back to the lesson please click back

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MAORI VILLAGES A View of Maori Village

This lesson tells us about the life of the Maoris. The Maoris are the persons who are the natives of the Maori Villages that are situated in northern island of the northern part of New Zealand. They were once the race of fighters but they are not wild any more i.e. they are civilized now. They are generally divided into tribes. They usually live in villages. Maoris are very hard working people. The Maori men generally do the harder jobs like breaking the soil for cultivation, cutting wood, hunting etc and The Maori women do the cooking, washing, cleaning & weeding etc. The Maori villages are known for

Cooking Pool

the hot springs and pools having hot water. These pools are caused by the steam coming from inside the earth through narrow openings on the surface. The Maoris use them for cooking, washing and bathing. There is no need for Maori house to have

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either a kitchen or a bathroom. These pools are most common around the district called Rotorua. The writer was once invited to spend a

View Of Rotorua

holiday in the outskirts of the Maori village of Ohinemutu, near the town of Rotorua. Rotorua lies in the Hot Spring District, where the water is not only hot but boiling. These springs of boiling water is known as Geyser. Wooden Houses

The writer’s friends lived in a wooden house like the Maoris. Maoris generally live in the wooden houses because there are frequent earthquakes and a wooden house does not cause so much damage as compare to the damage caused by brick houses.

The first day of the writer’s visit was Sunday. His hostess took him to a service in the Maori church. He was happy on seeing the beautiful church building. The clergyman was a Maori. He said the prayers first in Maori language and then in English. The lessons and the sermons are also given in both the languages.

View Of Church

Afterwards his hostess took the writer round the church. He admired the ends of pews and choir stalls, which had been very cleverly carved. He was shocked to know the fact that the pulpit, which appeared to be

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made of carved wood was not really wood and was made of panels of flax, the kind known as phormium. In the churchyard he saw many small pools of boiling water. After a while the writer noticed that the ground on which they were walking sounded hollow. He told this thing to his hostess. His hostess told him that we are living on a sort of crust, which is always cracking. She said,” I often feel that if I were to stamp my foot heavily it might go through the ground into the boiling water or the mud below. After lunch the writer and

A View of Whakarewarewa Maori Village

his friends went for a picnic to another

Maori

village

named

Whaka or Whakarewarewa. When they reached Whaka they went to the house of a Maori woman. This house looked like the houses of white people round about except for some fine carvings on the outside. That woman served us with tea that was prepared in the hot spring of boiling water. On the way to home the writer saw a little pool fenced round. His hostess told him that it is a washing pool. As they came along the village there was a very good smell of food cooking. The good smell of the food made them hungry. Then they were glad to have supper. Then after a pleasant evening wandering about the villagethough with care so as to avoid the hot pools-we went to bed. At night the writer heards the Maoris singing while bathing in the pool. That’s why he 7

could not sleep comfortably.

The hostess told him that besides having

cooking and bathing properties, many of the pools had medicinal properties as well. The writer enjoyed his stay in a Maori village. He was happy to know the fact that much of the work is done by the hot springs of boiling water. He was sad when his holiday came to an end. He loved to go back to the lands of baths and kitchen stoves. ------------------------------------End of the summary------------------------------

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DIFFICULT

MEANINGS

WORDS Admired

Appreciate , Look at With

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Brick

Pleasure A small rectangular block of

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Carved

fired clay. Cut into a hard material to

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Choir Stalls

produce an object or design Stand for the church singers to

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Civilized Clergyman Cultivation Earthquakes

sing Polite and well mannered Christian priest Grow plants or crops A sudden violent shacking of

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Fenced

the ground Surround or protect with a

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Flax

barrier made of wire or wood. A blue flowered plant from

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Geyser

which thread is made A hot spring that sometimes

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sprays water and steam into Hollow Hostess

the air. Having empty space inside Woman who invites and looks

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Hot Spring Hunting

after guests Pool having boiling water Killing a wild animal for food

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purpose

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Maoris

Persons living in Maori

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Medicinal

villages Having the qualities of curing

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Natives

disease A person born in a specified

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Outskirts

place, Inhabitants The Outer parts of a town or a

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Pews

city, Suburbs Wooden chairs for sitting in

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Pulpit

the church Stand for the Preacher to give

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Sermons Stamp

a sermon in church Talk on religious subjects Put the foot on the ground with

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Supper Surface Tribes

force Dinner Top Layer of something Group of people sharing same

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Weeding

customs and beliefs. Removing wild plants

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