"WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?"

Glantaf & Lytton

Glantaf Welsh Comprehensive School Cardiff The UK is very old. There have been people living there for thousands and thousands of years. I'm not certain but I think the UK is older than New Zealand. We have learnt a lot of interesting history that maybe you would like to learn about one day. Miranda Class summaries of what we think: How big is New Zealand? A bit bigger than Britten Bigger than Britain, but not by much About 2 or 3 times the size of the UK New Zealand is much larger than Britain. It is two islands Much bigger than Wales Bigger than Britain About the same size as Britain I think it is a lot bigger Much bigger than Wales, but not sure about Britain Is it an island? It is an island, more than one island More than one island, not attached to any other country New Zealand is two islands, a north and a south island, like Tasmania it is off the coast of Australia It is two islands One island One of many islands Where is it? By Australia New Zealand is South East of Australia in Southern hemisphere In the south by Australia It is in the Southern Hemisphere, quite a distance from the equator Next to Australia New Zealand is in the Southern part of the world, by Australia In the southern hemisphere, near Australia Southern Hemisphere How many people live there? Less than Britten Less than Britain but more than Wales About the same amount as here Although it is bigger than Britain, Britain is densly populated Don't know 5 million Less than live in Britain About 9-10 million About 60,000 9 million What do the people in New Zealand look like? They have darker skin They have tanned skin Ordinary, slightly darker colourd skin, and I'm told flatter noses than us Some are like us, but the natives are very different Bigger built, darker skin Like anyone else! A darker complexion but they look like humans They have a sun tan but apart from that they are the same What language do they speak? English and Maori English and in some cases Maori Many languages including Maori and English Is there a native culture? What do you know about it? Yes. Don't know Yes their native culture is Maori, but I don't know anything about them Yes, the Maoris. The Maoris were nearly wiped out when the white people went over. They do a dance before every rugby match called something like a 'Hacker' There is a native culture, but it is dying out, its name is Maori. They sometimes do war dances Yes there is a native culture, Maori. The white people came and wiped it out but it is being built up again There is a native culture, but I know nothing about it Yes they do a war dance before every rugby game What is their traditional costume like? Short clothes They wear brown skirts with decorations on them No idea Leather skirt, and lots of paints over their bodies/faces Grass skirts How long have people been living in New Zealand? Don't know I'd say 2000 years A few thousand of years, the Maoris were first there There have been people there for the last 500 years 2 million years 1,500,000 years old 100,000 years Thousands of years 3 thousand years ago What do you know about the history of New Zealand? I don't know anything about their history The Maoris are the natives of the country and when the white people went over they nearly wiped them and their country out They came from the Pacific Islands originally You won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 What does the countryside look like? Green Green with fields and trees with mountains with snow on top It is very muddy, and baron of many crops, a little grass for the sheep Green forests and mountainous surfaces with swamps The countryside is flat and green The same as ours Brown and barren, with a few dry bushes Green with lots of trees and hills Green, nice, trees, some mountains What is the climate like? Nice and hot The weather is very hot, but it is cold on top of the mountains Hot days, cool nights The climate is very hot and humid Hot in the summer, cold in the winter The weather is very hot Warm A bit hotter than Wales Hot Take a look at Lytton's responses to Glantaf's first impressions! Find out heaps more about New Zealand and the Maori culture.

Lytton High School Gisborne Our class summaries of what we think: How big is Britain/the UK? The U K is slightly smaller than New Zealand The U.K. is about 10 times bigger than New Zealand It is way bigger than our little country, New Zealand 5 times bigger than Australia UK is 1 times smaller than NZ It's as big as the North Island About three times bigger than NZ The other country is far more bigger than NZ, NZ is like an ant to them Where is it? U. K. is in Europe It is in the Northen Hemisphere On the other side of the world It is beside Europe In the United Kingdom It is above Africa and next to Greenland It is somewhere near Scotland How many people live there? There are 20,000,000 people living in the U.K. Much more than N.Z.'s population About 10,000,000 people About 6 or 7 million people 300,000 people What do the people look like? The people there are very fair and dress very tidy They're white U.K. people are fair People just like us French Some people are fair and some aren't very fair They look different to us They look like normal people with pale skin They look like the english people People from Whales look like Whale and English How old is it? The U.K. is as old as New Zealand Older than us Yous took over our countries 200-300 years The U.K. is very old 3,000 years old They have been living there for over 15 thousand years Now take a look at Glantaf's responses to these first impressions! Find out what Wales is REALLY like!