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Vocabulary: Experience BOE Job

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Unit 8

Vocabulary 3 Complete Dean’s story by writing a verb from


Exercise 2 in the correct form in the gaps. For
7FSCDPMMPDBUJPOTXJUIambition, career, some gaps, more than one answer may be possible.
experience BOE job
1 Complete these extracts from Reading and Use of
English Part 7 by writing a word or phrase from the I’ve always enjoyed performing in front of
box in the correct form in the gaps. people and I’d like to (1) a career
as an actor. If I could (2) my first
achieve gain offer pursue turn it down ambition of going to drama school, I’d
(3) the knowledge and experience
which is needed if I’m going to (4)
… it was only in his second year of a primary a job in the theatre. Acting is a very
teaching degree at Edinburgh University that he competitive profession, and you have to
decided to (1) a career as an actor. (5) your career step by step until,
hopefully, a well-known
If you want to (2) your ambitions as a
director recognises your
young actor, you’ve got to go where the work is. If
talent and (6)
I’m (3) a job down in London, there’s no
you a job which really
way I’d ever be able to (4) .
(7) your career on
And we’ve been able to (5) some the stage.
experience with TV as well as stage acting, which
has been great. 4 Work in pairs. Tell each other about your
ambitions and the careers each of you would
like to follow.

play, performance BOE acting;


audience, (the) public BOE spectators;
sceneBOEstage
5 Candidates often confuse these words:
play, performance and acting; audience, public
and spectators; scene and stage. Circle the
correct word in italics in each of these sentences.
Then check by looking at the text in Reading
and Use of English Part 7 again.
He was discovered by someone from the theatre
while performing in  plays / performances in
2 EP Complete these groups of collocations by writing Edinburgh and St Andrews, but he admits the
an ambition, a career, experience or a job in the gaps. students’ final  acting / performance in front of
 gain / get / have / lack directors and agents is still nerve-wracking.
 apply for / find / leave / look for / offer / turn down When I started the course, I thought that stage
 acting / playing was the only thing I wanted to do.
 abandon / build / launch / make / pursue / start out on
It was just so exhilarating to get up on  stage /
scene and perform in front of  a public / an
 abandon / achieve / fulfill / have / realise
audience.

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