About New Zealand

• RUGBY FORECAST http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/73069674/all-blacks-to-win-the-rugby-world-cup-according-to-investment-banks-forecast

  • The Hobbit - listening - a piece of news fom October 26th 2010: http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/nightline/hobbit-filming-in-nz-5050--john-key-2010102622#axzz3n2lirReT

  • News online: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

  • Ka mate - Mixed reactions to an American version of the haka: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11520336

  • Take the QUIZ about New Zealand: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/wmg/quizp.html

• Piece of news + activities: http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0806/080626-new_zealand.html

*Extra - further information about kiwi culture...

Flight of the Conchords, a New Zealand-based comedy band, who used to have a show on HBO, making fun of the French: https://youtu.be/X5hrUGFhsXo

The Piano (1993):

Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently colonized New Zealand wilderness of Victorian times. Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter), a mute who has willed herself not to speak, and her strong-willed young daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) find themselves in the New Zealand wilderness, with Ada the imported bride of dullard land-grabber Stewart (Sam Neill). Ada immediately takes a dislike to Stewart when he refuses to carry her beloved piano home with them.