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This is my mum and dad

 
Yaam nganyundi miimiga baabaga

 


My Place

Introduction and Outcomes
Initiating Activity - audio icon audio files
Learning Sequence:
Concluding Activity
Resource List

Initiating Activity

Outcomes addressed in Initiating Activity

HSIE: SSS1.8 - Identifies roles and responsibilities within families, schools and the local community, and determines ways in which they should interact with others.

ENGLISH: TS1.1 - Communicates with an increasing range of people for a variety of purposes on both familiar and introduced topics in spontaneous and structured classroom activities., TS1.3 - Recognises a range of purposes and audiences for spoken language and considers how own talking and listening are adjusted in different situations., RS1.5 - Reads a wider range of texts on less familiar topics with increasing independence and understanding, making connections between own knowledge and experience and information in texts., RS1.7 - Understands that texts are constructed by people and identifies ways in which texts differ according to their purpose, audience and subject matter., RS1.8 - Identifies the text structure and basic grammatical features of a limited range of text types., WS1.10 - Produces texts using the basic grammatical features and punctuation conventions of the text type., WS1.14 - Identifies the structure of own literary and factual texts and names a limited range of related grammatical features and conventions of written language.

Read My Mob:

My Mob

english text
My name is Zeminda Walker.
I am Gumbaynggirr.
My homeland is Bowraville.
This is my mum and my dad.
This is my brother and sisters.
These are my cousins.
These are my aunties and uncles.
This is my mob.
This is my homeland.

aboriginal text
Nganyundi bijaarr Zeminda Walker.
Ngaya yaam Gumbaynggirr.
Nganyundi jagun Bawrrung.
Yaam nganyundi miimiga baabaga.
Yaam nganyundi gaguuga jindaaga.
Yaam nganyundi ngajiiga.
Yaam nganyundi baranba gawaga.
Yaam nganyundi girrwaa.
Yaam nganyundi jagun.

[use worksheet 1]

Link to Worksheets for this unit
 


To hear Zeminda Walker reading her story in Gumbaynggirr, click on icon below:

.mp3

GUMBAYNGGIRR MP3 700k
download time : 56k modem : 1 min 42 secs
Duration = 44 secs
or  
.mov GUMBAYNGGIRR MOV 272k
download time : 56k modem : 39 secs
Duration = 44 secs

To hear Zeminda Walker reading her story in English, click on icon below:

.mp3 ENGLISH MP3 500k
download time : 56k modem : 1 min 13 secs
Duration = 32 secs
or  
.mov ENGLISH MOV 144k
download time : 56k modem : 21 secs
Duration = 32 secs

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[Note: if you are unable to access the audio in the classroom, record it before the lesson.]

Possible discussion prompts

  • Who wrote the book?
  • Why do you think the book was written?
  • How is this book different to other books you have read?
  • What is meant by the word 'mob'?
  • List the words that we can use instead of 'mob'.
  • Do we all belong to a mob?
  • Name the 'mobs' that students might belong to.
  • Is it important to belong to a 'mob'?
  • Describe feelings of not belonging.

In small groups, students share a family photo. They identify the family member and give reasons why they are important to them.

Tell students that there are hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. The book My Mob is written in Gumbaynggirr, one of the 70 Aboriginal languages in New South Wales. For example, 'yaam nganyundi' means 'this is my' or 'these are my'. Using the big book, invite students to identify the Gumbaynggirr words for family members. Use word cards to model translations [use worksheet 2].

Link to Worksheets for this unit

Students write statements in both Gumbaynggirr and English languages. For example:

'This is my mum and dad' and 'Yaam nganyundi miimiga baabaga.'

Display statements and photos in an imaginative way.

continue on to learning sequence 1


 

  
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