Robert Hautman Wins the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Robert Hautman is the art winner.
- A2
Robert Hautman won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest.
- B1
Minnesota resident Robert Hautman has won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest.
- B2
Minnesota resident Robert Hautman has won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest.
- C1
Minnesota resident Robert Hautman has won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest.
- C2
Minnesota resident Robert Hautman has won the 2026 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest with an acrylic painting of two long-tailed ducks, securing his fourth victory in the national art competition.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- acrylic
- made from a plastic substance
- evaluate
- to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something
- submission
- something that you give or send to someone, for example a proposal or a piece of work, for them to consider
- conservation
- the protection of plants, animals, and natural areas
- unite
- to join together as a group, or to make people join together as a group
- flourish
- to grow or develop successfully
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by US Fish and Wildlife Service. Read the original for the full report.