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Project Axe helps Brazil's street children begin a new life by teaching them a graceful martial art.

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Key Learning Points

• tracing historical background
• expressing a past action with a present result

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Contestants compete at the Punkin Chunkin contest to see who catapults pumpkins the farthest.

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Key Learning Points

• presenting rules and objectives
• describing events

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A story on the hula in Hawaii, including its history, halaus, and the Merrie Monarch festival hula competition.

Source: National Geographic

Key Learning Points

• telling stories
• using past tense