With the Golden Globe Awards still fresh on our mind this clip with the actors on The King's Speech comes in handy to practise our listening comprehension skills.
Self-study activity:
Watch the video and complete the script with the missing information in the blanks.
It was a story that ha- had to…it had to be judged well… the humor – humor is…is never an (1) ______ to – to judge perfectly. You always feel like you’re treading…treading a very (2) _______. Uhmm… cliches, stereotypes, you know…stereotypical uhm…repressed member of the Royal Family… stereotypical Australian…ahh, we ha- we…sort of avoid those sorts of things. I didn’t want it to be, uhm, a self-pitying…uhm, (3) _______ of a man. And so there were there were there were an awful lot of things I think I think, we…we worked very hard on...on being (4) _______ about.
I feel really…I have to take (5) ______ seriously…uhh, and, you know… shed a light on this condition in a way that I’m pleased to stay and **** what the film says very accurate… and I had been (6) _______ at how Colin Fi- Firth portrays it.
Key:
1 easy thing 2 narrow line 3 portrayal 4 precise 5 stammering 6 amazed
