1.The Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii shows visitors many Polynesian ways of life. Look at the picture below. What do you think the tour guide is going to talk about?

2.Listen to the first part of the tour guide’s talk and take notes to fill in the tables below. A few words are given to help you.

Building a dugout boat

Materials: a tall, straight tree

Step 1:  cut down the tree and remove the branches

Step 2: cut the tree in half to get two long pieces of wood

Step 3: remove the inside of one piece to make the boat

Step 4: take off the bark and put oil on the outside of the boat

Building a palm leaf house

Materials: a lot of palm leaves

Step1: collect palm leaves

Step2: wave them together to make a long wall

Step3: join the edges of the wall by weaving the ends together and putting sticks to hold the wall up

Step4: make the roof from two other flat pieces of palm leaves and put the roof on top of the wall

Listening text

BOATS AND HOUSES THE POLYNESIAN WAY

Part 1

    Welcome to the Polynesian Cultural Centre! My name is Tera, a Polynesian name which means “ the sun”. I’m so glad you could come today and learn about some of the amazing Polynesian ways.
    As you can see, here behind me is one of their boats. To built a boat like this, you need a very tall, straight tree. You first cut down the tree and remove the branches. Then you cut the tree in half so you have two long pieces of wood. You use one piece to make the boat. Remove the inside for a person to sit in. Take the bark off the outside of the boat and put oil on it so it will easily go through the sea. Some  Polynesian boats have sails.

Part 2

    Over here, we have a house made of palm leaves and branches. To make a house like this, you need to collect a lot of palm leaves! After collecting them,  weave them together to make a large flat piece. This is the “wall” of the house, so you will need to make it very long.
    After finishing the wall, join the two edges by weaving the ends of the palm leaves together. Then put sticks up to hold the wall up. Finally, make two other flat pieces of palm leaves together for the roof, and place them on top so that water can drip onto the ground when it rains. Now you have a palm tree house!