Student Name: _____________________
THE BONE TIKI
David Hair
Chapter 1 - Eavesdropping
Mat Douglas is waiting for his father to come home so they can go to __________________’s tangi. Mat’s ancestry is part-_____________ (on his father’s side) and part-___________ on his mother’s. To reflect this dual heritage, he carved a ___________ pendant for them, one side a __________ and the other a _________ _________. Mat’s mother now lives in __________ where she works as a ______________. Mat is ______ years old and lives with his father, a _____________, in _____________, not far from the ______. Mat thinks his father works too hard and doesn’t like the fact that he represents clients who are __________ - ___________. Tama Douglas doesn’t wear his half of the pendant and treats his son harshly - he is ___________, ______________ and ___________________. But Mat has two qualities that help him; he can be stubborn and he very occasionally gets an urge to do something _____________________- what he calls his instinct. Just before they leave, Mat retrieves the koru pendant and puts it on while Tama gets a phone call from a Mr Puarata, who seems to scare him. Puarata asks about documentation for a ________ _______ and demands Tama’s support when he attends the tangi.
As they travel south to the marae, Mat thinks about Nanny Wai-aroha. He’d met her only once, at his great-aunt _______________’s place. She had been in an _________________ for years and had ______________ wrists. She helped Mat with his drawing for the ______________ and encouraged him to find what he’s___________ at. That was the first time Mat felt that he could become an ______________. Before he left, Nanny Wai showed him a hei-tiki carved from bone and told him he should have it when she died. So Mat was determined to have the tiki, even though Puarata scared him.
Translate these words, using their context if necessary:
tangi...