Matt Jones, 20, describes what's like being a male model.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 483.
About two years ago, when I was living in a small town, one of my ex-girlfriends took me to a fashion show in London, and straightaway modelling scouts came up to me. I was in complete confusion; I'd never thought of modelling. (4) …………… . At the end of the show, they had a competition for the best-looking guy in the place, and I won. I was going to walk out, I was so embarrassed, I was saying, ‘No, no, no. I don't want to get into modelling.' I wanted to do the same thing I still want to do – technical illustration – which is what I was studying. (5) …………… . I was a naughty boy. After all these compliments and stuff, I just thought: why not have a go? There's a bit of money to be made here and I'm not going to lose out. So I went down to London and joined an agency.
People think that if you are a model, you love yourself and you're dumb. That's all down to the Press, isn't it? (6) ……………. . I know that for a fact. Most models are doing the job because it's silly money. Most of my friends are models, not because I only want to hang around with models, but five days of the week I'm with them and we talk and say ‘How's it going?' and ‘What clubs do you go to?' – that sort of thing. (7) …………….. . If you do a job with a girl who is a big model and you're trying to be nice, she says, ‘Huh, who do you think you are?'
A. I mean, people had said at school and college, ‘Oh, he looks like a model,' but I took it as an insult, really.
B. It's always been my ambition to be rich and famous, but what I really want to do is to be a singer.
C. The money is the main justification for doing the job – you get a chance to put something behind you so in a few years' time you've got the money to do what you want.
D. My mum used to be an actress and my dad was also an actor and now writes film scripts.
E. I'm not thick.
F. But I didn't finish my studies.
G. With male models we're all friends, we help each other out; women are more competitive.
H. They're not the people I see at weekends.
* Covent Gardenwas once the fruit and vegetable market of London but was converted in 1980 into a fashionable shopping area in central London.
Doc Marten boots – brand name of heavy boots popular and fashionable with young people since the seventies.
English rose- a girl who looks typically English, rather pale and innocent
castings – competitive auditions for modelling jobs
- Find synonyms or explain the following words and word combinations. Give your own examples. Translate into Russian:
1. to have a go
2. to lose out
3. be down to
4. be thick/ dumb
5. to hang around/about with smb
6. wicked
7. silly money
8. to be typecast
· Find English equivalents to the following word-combinations.
1. íàíèìàòü(ñÿ) íà ðàáîòó
2. íà÷èíàòü çàíèìàòüñÿ ( ÷åì-ë. â êà÷åñòâå ïðîôåññèè, äîëæíîñòè, çàíÿòèÿ )
3. ïîääåðæàòü ÷üå-ëèáî ðåøåíèå
4. ñòðàñòíî ÷åì-ëèáî óâëåêàòüñÿ
5. ìíå âñåãäà õîòåëîñü
6. ñìåðèòü âçãëÿäîì
7. òùåñëàâíûé
8. áûòü â ïîëíîì çàìåøàòåëüñòâå
9. ïðèíÿòü çà îñêîðáëåíèå
10. â êîíöå ïîêàçà
11. áûòü ñìóùåííûì
12. ïîïðîáîâàòü, ïîïûòàòüñÿ
· Summarize the text.
· Retell the text
ENGLISH IN USE:
· Complete the sentences with like, as, as if or alike.
like – you want to say that two things or people are separate but similar in some way (You two are behaving like children. Ben looks like his brother.)
as – you refer to one thing or person; you describe what someone's job, duty or position is; you describe the way something is being used or considered (He works as a doctor. They used an old blanket as a tent.)
as if – you want to say that something appears to be true, though may not be true (She looks as if she knows what she is doing.)
alike – almost exactly the same, similar (These two houses look alike.)
1. Lucy works ……… a receptionist in a dentist's surgery.
2. This film stars Roger Moore ……… James Bond.
3. You look …….. you've seen a ghost!
4. I hate to be rude, but William really does look …….. a horse.
5. ……… his father before him, Neil entered the legal profession.
6. ……… headmaster, Mr Myers is responsible for the health and safety of all the children in the school.
7. The little cottage was just ……… I had expected it to be.
8. We decorated our new house exactly ……… our old one.
9. Jill and her sister look ……… .
10. The students looked ………. they knew the answer – but they didn't.
11. She looks ……… her great-grandmother when she was young.
12. Bob plans to get a job …….. a managing director.
· Paraphrase the sentences using about to. Translate them into Russian.
EXAMPLE: The parachutist is standing in the open doorway of the aircraft.
- He is about to jump.
1. John is standing right on the edge of the diving board.
2. The President has taken the microphone in his hand.
3. The racing drivers are revving up their engines.
4. The election is over and all the votes have been counted.
5. The patient has rolled up his sleeve and the doctor has the syringe ready.
6. We were going to leave, when Jerry arrived.
· Paraphrase the sentences using bound to. Translate them into Russian.
EXAMPLE: All four engines of the aircraft are on fire.
- It is bound to crash.
1. Marjorie is 50 meters ahead of all the other runners.
2. The burglar left his fingerprints everywhere.
3. Mrs Richards is driving the wrong way down the motorway.
4. Peter has eaten a kilo of strawberries and a plate of hot curry.
5. The yacht has a large hole below the water-line.
6. She's such a nice girl that I'm sure she will make a lot of friends there.
How do people's lives change when they become famous?
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