B1 – Intermediate
It must be great to be famous, paid a lot of money, and do what you love doing. Welcome to the life of an actor!
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Discussion Questions:
- What do you think about being an actor?
- What are the good and bad things about being an actor?
- Who are some of your favorite movie stars and theatre actors?
- Do you like watching movies and theatre plays? Why or why not?
- Have you ever performed in front of many people? Talk about that moment.
6 replies on “Actors”
1. What do you think about being an actor?
I think that the actor is a profession that you need to be good and have good luck to get success. Only a few of them to earn a lot of money.
2. What are the good and bad things about being an actor?
I think that the good thing is that you’d be able to became famous if you are really good actor but in the other side if you are famous you won’t be able to have a quite life.
3. Who are some of your favorite movie stars and theatre actors?
My favorite actors are Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, George Clooeny and the my favorite movies are Indiana Jones, Presunto Inocente, Apocalypse now
4. Do you like watching movies and theatre plays? Why or why not?
Yes, I like to watch them but I don’t have too much time to enjoy of it.
5. Have you ever performed in front of many people? Talk about that moment.
No, I’ve never performed in front of many people.
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1. What do you think about being an actor?
I think it is a profession where only a minority become successful and can earn a lot of money, the majority only earn money to survive.
2. What are the good and bad things about being an actor?
I don’t know, the good thing may be that if you become famous you can earn a lot of money, the bad thing is that you have to pay the price of fame.
3. Who are some of your favorite movie stars and theatre actors?
My favorite actors are, Harrison Ford especially in all the movies directed by George Lucas and Demmie Moore
4. Do you like watching movies and theatre plays? Why or why not?
I prefer plays, the acting is more real live, in movies the acting is modified until the director considers it good.
5. Have you ever performed in front of many people? Talk about that moment.
No never.
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1. I think it’s hard to become a big star
2. The good thing is that you work in something that you are really passionate about and the bad thing I think would be the lack of privacy
3. They vary with the years and the movies I see hahaha but right now i would say Andrew Garfield for movies
4. I love going to the movies, it is something that I really enjoy and I like to do at least once a month.
5.I did children’s theater and once we performed in front of 200 people it was scary but I enjoyed it in the end
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