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Exercise 52. Fill in the correct form of the words.
Comparative Superlative Translation
good
bad
little
industrious
excited
grumpy
dedicated
persuasive
meticulous
savvy
absent-minded
inexperienced
frank
Exercise 53. Watch the video 1.5 and answer the questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdYTEe8-EKE
- You were offered (предложили) an opportunity (возможность) to go to
Broadway with a play (пьеса) you’d already been a part of. And it was a very
difficult decision (решение) for you, but you elected (выбрал) not to do that
because of sort of an idea of where you wanted to take things (заниматься
некоторыми вещами).
- It was a selfish (эгостичное) decision as well because it affected (повлияло)
a lot of other people. I did do 8 months before we were supposed to (должны
были) go, but apologies (извинения) to Nancy Carroll and Adrian
Scarborough, and Thea Sharrock. I just wanted to mix it all up all the time. I
really wanted, I wanted…I mean, my theatre training at LAMDA was a
classical theater, classical English theater one year course and a post-graduate
course (аспирантура), which I really enjoyed and got a lot out of (из чего
много извлёк). That was it, that was the main focus. Because I thought, a little
bit old- fashioned in my kind of understanding of it (в моём типе
понимания этого). I thought that what I’d do, what the great actors that have
been ahead of me had done (которые были впереди меня, сделали) and
inspired (вдохновляло) me to do, is the idea of starting out in the classics,
then maybe a modern play (пьеса) or two, then a few roles in the television,
and then getting a film role, but keep going back to the theater. That is what
I’ve done. That is kind of what I’ve tried to do. The unhappy accident (случай)
of that play being such a huge (огромный) success was it came at a point
where (это случилось, когда) I thought, Christ, I’ve actually got some
momentum (стимул) in a medium (в среде) where it’s much more of a
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