Story-telling contest 1.What have you been up lately ? M: I spent the entire month practicing for a short school performance and it was driving me crazy. 2. What do you call this kind of performance? M: It was actually a story telling contest. 3 How do you say elephant in Chinese? 大象 4. It was about the world’s oldest elephant. During world war2 , he helped The Chinese soldiers transport goods for a long time.eventually he was taken by a general to the Taipei zoo .he lived there as a celebrity for the rest of his life. 5 He witnessed history as it happened.