5 (§2-3)
male dancers being bullied / the stigma surrounding male dancers.6 “If you ... my watch.”
7 (§3) a His father didn’t really want him to dance. But, by dancing, the son started to believe in himself.
b It tells us that Tom is successful in his ambition to change people’s perceptions of male dancers.
8 (§4) a When he was 4 years old and watched an Elvis Presley video.
b Yes, he does. He says he gets paid to waste time and have fun.
9 (§5) a Ballet teaching is not something he likes. / He finds ballet teaching very hard.
b “Ballet and me don’t see eye to eye”
c He wants to know about many dancing techniques and be able to teach them.
10 a First he qualified as an electrician ,
b then he obtained teaching qualifications for tap and street dance ,
c and recently he qualified as a ballet teacher .
11 For example: Tom loves tap dancing and in this interview he explains that he doesn’t tolerate prejudices about male dancers in his dance class. So you could say that he wants to drive out (‘tap away’) the prejudices (‘stigma’) by dancing/tapping and setting the right example.
