Bài thực hành nghe Tiếng Anh nâng cao - Bài 08 - Thẩm Tâm Vy - Năm 2018 (Có âm thanh)

 Thẩm Tâm Vy October 27th, 2018 PRACTISE LISTENING ADVANCED LESSON 98 
PRACTISE LISTENING 08 ~ ADVANCED 
Nicky: Tell me about your previous job. 
Rachel: Um I was a professional actress and um, one of my first jobs was playing Peter 
Pan in a travelling pantomime, just the three of us. 
Nicky: Fascinating. Was it hard work? 
Rachel: It was incredibly hard work because we were doing three shows a day, six days 
a week, um, and we were travelling to and from those performances, setting up the 
performances and actually then performing as well. 
Nicky: And what qualifications did you have to have to become an actress in the first 
place? 
Rachel: Um, I didn't actually have any formal qualifications but I had a huge theatrical 
background, um, I'd done a lot of amateur work growing up and then to actually get the 
job though I did, um, audition for an agent and then he got me this first job when he 
took me on, so  
Nicky: Wonderful. And what skills would you say an actress or an actor has to have? 
Rachel: Huge passion and drive for what you're doing. I don't think you could do it 
without the passion and wanting to perform and act for people. You also need a lot of 
stamina, um, for the amount of performances that you're doing and you need to keep 
your training up, um, and just yeah, just keep very fit. And you also need to be really 
flexible. Um, your performances, you know, you could be performing at any kind of 
venue, um, your shows might need to adapt to your audiences, so yeah, you need to be 
willing to be flexible all the time. 
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 Notes: 
(1) drive: energy and determination to achieve things 
e.g. - We are looking for someone with drive and ambition. 
 [+ to infinitive] - He has the drive to succeed. 
 (2) stamina: the physical and/or mental strength to do something that might be difficult and will take a 
long time: 
 e.g. - The triathlon is a great test of stamina.