>Unit 1
Part I Pre-reading Task
Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions:
1. Do you know who John Lennon was?
2. Have you ever heard the song before?
3. What does Lennon think of growing up? Is it easy or full of adventures?
4. Can you guess what the texts in this unit are going to be about?

The following words in the recording may be new to you:

monster
n. 怪物

prayer
n. 祈祷

Script for the recording:
Have you ever heard of the pop singer, John Lennon? Here he is singing a song he wrote for his son. it's called Beautiful Boy.

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster's gone
He's on the run and your daddy's here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
> Beautiful boy

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Out on the ocean sailing away
i can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But i guess we'll both just have to be patient
'Cause it's a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
Yes it's a long way to go

But in the meantime
Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans


> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
> Beautiful boy
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
> Beautiful boy

>
Bofore you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It's getting better and better


> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
> Beautiful boy
> Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
> Beautiful boy

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Beautiful boy
Darling, darling, darling
Darling Sean

You've just heard John Lennon singing a lullaby to his son Sean. A lullaby is a song we sing to help babies to go to sleep. So he tells Sean "Close your eyes, have no fear, your Daddy's here." Then he looks into the future. He sees his son setting out on life's adventure:

OUt on the ocean sailing away

And he can hardly wait to see his on grow up, to reach eighteen when he comes of age and celebrates becoming an adult. But he knows they'll both have to be patient.

'Cause it's a long way to go
A hard row to hoe

Growing up can be difficult. At times it can, as we say, be a hard row to hoe. It's a phrase we use to describe any difficult task.

But if growing up is sometimes hard, it is also full of surprises. Things happen when we least expect them:

Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans

I think you'll find the stories you are going to read in this unit show that John Lennon was right: growing up can be quite an adventure, full of the unexpected.

As for John Lennon, sadly he never did live to see his son grow up and come of age, for John was shot dead by a madman in New York while Sean was still only five years old.



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