Behind the Music: Julian Lennon
Vocabulary:
| Beatle | seldom | to scream | with a heavy heart |
| Liverpool |
to be hard on | to shout | how dare you |
| to be born to | frequent | recollection | once in a blue moon |
| John Lennon | tours | countryside | to get over there |
| Cynthia | youngster | shattered lives | relationship |
| for the future to hold s.t. for s.o. | silent | to blend quietly in | Dakota Building |
| Who's gonna be a little rocker... | desperate to | headmaster | teenage |
| to preordain | to creep along | term | half-brother |
| chaos of the road | landing | normal | Sean |
| recording sessions | to be in a good frame of mind | to see less of | firstborn |
| hangers-on | to grow apart | restauranteur | to react |
| in tow (following him) | to become involved with | Roberto Bassaninni | attention |
| entourage | experimental | father figure | tough |
| nutty (= crazy, strange) | Yoko Ono | to depend on | |
| drugs | to look on helplessly | on rare occasions | |
| to be littered with | to fall apart | distant | |
| psychedelic | to divorce | to be around | |
| bodies | traumatic | to replace | |
| kitchen | breakup | hardly | |
| confusing | abandonment | awkward | |
| never mind for...(x §ó¤£¥Î»¡) | to block out | to look on |
Listening Comprehension
Questions:
1. Julian
was the 'first' what?
2. When was Julian born?
3. When did John first see Julian?
4. What kind of future did John decide for his son from the very beginning?
5. What problems were there, from wife Cynthia's point of view, when John
was home?
6. What was hard for Julian? What was also hard for Julian?
7. Why did the house have to be quiet during part of the day?
8. What did Julian want to do for his father?
9. What was Julian unsure of when he did this?
10. What had happened by the time Julian was three?
11. What was one reason John and Cynthia were estranged?
12. What happened when Julian was five?
13. What reason does Julian give for remembering so little of the events of
this time?
14. What happened when Julian enrolled in school?
15. What happened in 1970?
16. What was a positive side of this for Julian?
17. How often did Julian see his biological father?
18. How were relations between Julian and John Lennon?
19. How many years passed before Julian next saw his father?
20. How did this finally change?
21. When was John's second son, Sean, born?
22. What emotion does Julian seem to be feeling as he describes the relationship
between John and Sean?