<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>the beginning of the meeting in which participants are filling out their BIs is not transcribed <&>3:57 <{1><[1>okay we're ready to go let's get going we put minutes of the maths department meeting <{2><[2>twenty fourth of march <[1>word <&>4:00 <[2>word word <{><[>twenty fourth <[>er because there's something here lucy won't like but i'm bringing it out anyway oh what's he gonna read something i haven't done <{><[>i suppose <[>nah it's just <,> list of names for australian maths national bank to to meet now it's just just we might as well do the coughs business from the meeting while minutes while we're here those um <,> those kids <.>k still keep coming in there are still people paying did <{><[>did mary jones catch up with you <[>so no not yet so that i i'll actually look at that early <.>next once this maths thing on thursday night's out of the way i'll get that sorted out it's the twenty ninth is the first one is the um coughs the national bank roger and i think when that comes in we'll just photocopy some stuff and give <,> some <{><[>to the kids <[>weren't we gonna meet with the kids first and give them a <{><[>word <[>yeah i know but i i i would think probably next week we'll get the the question sheets oh okay and all that twenty ninth <{><[>of this month is it <[>er the math's digests we've just flagged that have you david we're not going to go ahead <{><[>with that <[>oh i'm still holding someone's MONey so what i'll do i might just arrange an individual copy <&>5:00 <,> for that person okay workbooks um a letter home to those how many haven't paid workbooks heaps still <{><[>i've only got one <[>er i've only got none none you've got one clears throat <{><[>sniffs <[>except for except for jacob harper <{><[>who didn't come back <[>i'll have to check i think there's quite a few there's still quite a few i've still well see i got four classes yeah <{><[>okay well write <.>that write that down early next week we'll get a <.>an a a letter out home <[>so i've still got you must have the rough kids i've got the nice word ones oh have you the DATE of the national bank by the way is the twenty ninth as i said fifteen dollar calculators that helen's got some now <{><[>she got them through school supplies <[>oh good can we have another perhaps strongly worded letter cos i've still got four boys <{1><[1>three boys who just aren't turning up with them in <{2><[2>the third form <[1>calculators <[2>okay right <{><[>and they need a <[>i've got i've got fourth formers <{><[>word <[>how <{><[>did you get on david with <[>fourth formers i've got fourth formers <{1><[1>with your class once i came in there and gave <{2><[2>them the hard word? about the calculators <[1>word <[2>word um there was just tom did did he did <.>a as i said to you don't let him come to your class if he hasn't got that calculator yeah he didn't have one today was that harris was that your fifth <{1><[1>form <{2><[2>class <[1>he said <[2>no <{><[>his father was buying him one and he'll have it tomorrow <[>form six okay <&>6:00 all laugh he said <.>he that guy's got more money than er the lot of us mm and the um form fives hopeless aren't they yeah no <{><[>word <[>now i haven't actually got together with <.>bel bella er robinson is it yeah yet but i i've made a tentative arrangement for thursday this week <,> um <.>corre what a correspondence from <&>name of school school um they cancelled that meeting <,> it was on apparently they <{1><[1>sent it out to all the primary schools in the area and asked and i was the only one who replied so it's a not a hell of a lot of interest the form three evening <,> um return slip <,> um <&>whistles through teeth needs to be finalised oh what we've got down here is calculators um lucy and roger yeah we've made a few changes on this <{2><[2>haven't we <,> basic algebra <[1>coughs <[2>yeah yeah <[2>yeah yeah that's gonna be david and i now isn't it is it yeah and you are you happy with that? i don't <{><[>mind <[>mm yeah yeah you've got two you've got i mean it's only two days away i mean that you <{><[>that <[>oh david and i will get something worked out <{><[>tomorrow won't we david <[>word this return slip <&>7:00 yeah what what was that the return slip? of parents that were coming? <{1><[1>yeah yeah i just wanted to get a general idea on who was <{2><[2>coming <,> now what i've got i'll come up to that later cos i've got some notes to go home to those kids just a reminder notice <[1>yeah <[2>word take home word yeah i haven't got anything none of them came back? <,> not <.>any none in <.>the none in your whole class noone came back? form three noone's given me a return slip acknowledging the parents are coming are any coming have you asked them well i'll ask them tomorrow won't i how <{><[>the hell are the word <[>cos that <.>the it was a bit of a the slip wasn't worded as well as it should have been could have been eh <{><[>no <[>no we left off the bit about this must come back i i i'm not really concerned i'm just no i'm just concerned that we get say <.>a about thirty people there well <{><[>i word <[>cos i asked my class today i just said oh forget about the slip just who's coming and how many just a <{><[>few? <[>i got about five out of that <{><[>class and only three out of the ones that brought <&>pronounced bought the slips back <[>yes mm what i what what <{><[>i've got here is a note <[>well that's twenty between between us really that's twenty what i've got <.>a is a note and if you could if you take them tomorrow to your <.>cl your third <&>8:00 form classes here's another one david and perhaps to the ones that you know have given you a <{><[>thing and just give them one of these to take home <[>yeah mm it's a reminder it just says er reminder <{><[>for workshop evening for forms to be brought back it says and it's also in the newsletter so the newsletter goes out on thursday <[>mm mm um it may well be <{><[>so we may well get these some that turn up whose kids never never told them about it <[>cos i don't see my kids till thursday eh exactly yeah who they've just read it themselves <{><[>in the newsletter <[>yeah we could get fifty but i mean if we've got four groups operating which is what i've got down here calculators basic algebra problem solving and integers is it yeah <{><[>yeah there was another one i thought of this morning on the way to school that we should have done which was obvious others laugh <[>mm but you know what was it um <,> it was it was a it was an obvious one to do have you got any word <{><[>whole numbers <[>yeah i'm doing integers not geometry based one or? <{><[>shapes? <[>shapes? shapes? <,> rotation? reflection? or? no i i can't remember <{><[>but <[>well it can't have been that obvious it was yeah all laugh yes <,> so but they're they're twenty minutes if you operate a twenty minutes duration and we'll <&>9:00 have to i think we'll come back to that topic later <{1><[1>draft syllabus you're supposed to i asked you i want you to read up to seventeen pages <{2><[2>of that <[1>yes <[2>oh it was a load of <{><[>garbage wasn't it <[>um yes it <{><[>was <[>now calculators post letters home to students who continually do not bring them yes yeah <,> so so we need a strongly worded letter we can post out calculators? yes early next week more letters to be sent home on fees for workbooks <,> um fees for workbooks sent home a <&>letter a workbooks to be paid <{1><[1>then second one <{2><[2>calculators <{3><[3>right? <[1>mm <[2>calculators <[3>and probably new zealand cert <{><[>maths <[>yep <{><[>um <[>and n z cert maths <,> AGAIN yeah we've just sent those <{><[>ones haven't we <[>yes what we do with the ones that are not gonna pay that? i mean <{><[>word student word leave in about a month <[>i'll ring them well <{><[>if he's <[>well well i'll tell you what charge him for what paper he's used bugger it <{><[>excuse my language <[>oh i thought i'd be making <{><[>word <[>laughs <{><[>laughs <[>oh caught her on file laughs now this <{><[>is <[>that was <{><[><.>m missus <&>10:00 <[>but but see how natural <{><[>that was how spontaneous that was <[>laughs <{><[>that's no justification use a bit of restraint woman <[>now the last one sorry now the last one listen to this one l q to design a letter of acknowledgement for class work and maths oh yeah i know i haven't even i knew you were gonna say that i've still got it it's in the pipeline it's in the computer it's in <.>the no it's not even on the computer it's in here <&>presumably points to head laughs it's on the floppiest of all floppy discs <.>y is he being rude to me okay just well let's see how quickly we can get through this meeting maths competition racing this time australian and the national bank if you can just keep pushing the kids the australian one <,> if we get more than the third formers more third formers pay up than we've actually sent away for i'll just send another um cheque for the rest of the money i mean at the moment we've got more paid than what we've entered for we're entered for eight <{1><[1>and we've got ten but we can easily <{2><[2>get around that <[1>that's fine <[2>gosh and i've still haven't had word yeah now cantermaths margaret oh yes if you can just keep pushing that with your classes though that the maths competition if you want to go in it pay your money up um you know how we have third and fourth form <,> <&>11:00 quizzes um in the bay of plenty and we send teams away mhm what we thought is <.>w <.>i if we could get our junior classes sort of in into that mode of of of mathematics for the next couple of weeks just it's it's a real buzz i've had tried it with my kids okay? and you know the system you get sets of papers and as the kids finish one they bring the answer up and if they get it right they get five marks and the next sheet and it goes like that they do get a buzz <.>ye yeah yeah they get a real buzz out of it and what i've i've only done it once with my class and i just haven't had time stuffing round a lot anyway i'd like to do that say two three times with my kids and from there we'll i will select a team of say two teams of four from my class um and if each of us sort of do that with our third and fourth form and we have an actual school competition and from there the kids who actually go to represent the school sort of it feels like they earn their place and other kids <{><[>have a right to <[>yeah yeah <&>12:00 and it can be done in you know but what the cantermaths is because it's already set out this is what i use with my kids it's already set out you see it starts with really simple you know that ninety six eight times twelve right and you go you set these up you get six teams yeah not very word <{><[>yeah and and <.>i you know it's really easy but <[>yeah and have you got all these yeah but what i want to do is i want to get <,> this is a simple one i only started with the easy one <,> okay? and see how easy they are i actually started my kids without calculators <{><[>and that's the mark sheet? <[>without them? and this is the answer withOUT <{><[>calculators you were saying? <[>and their totals without calculators? i started this simple one without calculators and the simple one is which one? <{1><[1>the whole thing <{2><[2>they're all a set <[1>the first one <[2>oh they're all the same yeah they're all the same okay but THEN because it took me ages to set UP and tell them what i wanted um <,> we lost time so after the first <,> THREE i said right calculators now and they brought <&>pronounced bought them out <{1><[1>and it didn't make any <{2><[2>difference actually it didn't make any difference <[1>right <&>13:00 <[2>word but the but the numbers in them aren't that <{><[>difficult <[>now yeah are these have you got different ones for fourth over to third <{><[>or something <[>well well this is actually er <.>e sent from canterbury for form one laughs oh okay yeah and i've got the form two lot as well which we could use for our fourth form oh yeah laughs true <{1><[1>word <{2><[2>word <[1>word be smart word <[2>so we just for our classes <{><[>though you could <[>so we just ask you for these or are we going to have to <{><[>photocopy the whole set <[>no well what i i want to do is photograph sets and give them to you <{><[>i want to actually set one up with with roger and go through it with him <[>yeah that's right yeah please in his class yeah with his class oh right <{><[>so if i do it with one of his classes he can do it with the other three <[>yeah so yeah and perhaps help show david yeah yeah <{><[>that would be much appreciated yeah <[>and if we do that yeah well you know if we think about that in the next <,> so i know there's a heck of a lot to do in the next two weeks but the kids <{><[>really enjoy it have a good time yeah right <[>no but it might be a nice thing to do leading up to easter cos i mean look we're gonna all finish units off aren't we <{1><[1>in in the third and fourth form <{2><[2>over this week <[1>yeah <[2>i'm finished i'm testing on thursday and friday me too yeah so <&>14:00 i'm starting laughs okay so if you're <{1><[1>going to <{2><[2>word <[1>you're a slacker <[2>i'll set that up and i'll come round and i'll say lucy you know how to do <{1><[1>this so you won't need it and then i'll <{2><[2>help roger <[1>teach us how it works <[2>okay i might need a scoring thing cos i forget the scoring <&>14:09