Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 3 - Capoeira - The fighting dance for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Now watch the video and answer the questions in Exercise 1.

Answer

  1. They’re doing capoeira. It’s a Brazilian art form that’s half dance, half martial art.
  2. In Bahia, Brazil. It has African roots, though.
  3. Slaves developed it as a way of learning to fight against slave owners, but they knew they had to be careful about this, so they disguised it as a dance! 
  4. street kids (as well as lots of other people around the world)
  5. It’s used with lots of troubled young people, people with drug problems, homeless kids, etc. It helps develop both body and mind / soul. Through capoeira, kids learn respect and how to control their feelings. They learn rules and limits. 

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