sábado, 7 de noviembre de 2015

Remember, remember!

Last Thursday,  some students were celebrating 'Guy Fowkes Day' through some activities and games.

Watch the video and do the exercises:




Exercise 2º ESO

Match the questions 1-5 with the paragraphs A-E

1. How was Guy Fawkes discovered?
2. What happened to Guy Fawkes in the end?
3. Why did Guy Fawkes want to kill King James 1st and the king’s leaders?
4. Why and how do people celebrate the event?
5. What was the plot?

A...........................................................................................

When Queen Elizabeth 1st took the throne of England she made some laws against the Roman Catholics. Guy Fawkes was one of a small group of Catholics who felt that the government was treating Roman Catholics unfairly. For example they had to practise their religion in secret. There were even fines for people who didn't attend the Protestant church on Sundayor on holy days. Catholics hoped that King James 1st would change the laws, but he didn't. What's worse when Jameslst became the king he even passed more laws against the Catholics.

B............................................................................................

Guy Fawkes and a group of men led by Robert Catesby, planned to kill King James and blow up the Houses of Parliament, the place where the laws that governed England were made.
The plot was simple - the next time Parliament was opened by King James l, they would blow up everyone there with gunpowder. The men bought a house next door to the parliament building. The house had a cellar which went under the parliament building. They planned to put gunpowder under the house and blow up parliament and the king.

C............................................................................................

Guy Fawkes was given the job to keep watch over the barrels of gunpowder and to light the fuse. On the morning of 5th November, soldiers discovered Guy hidden in the cellar and arrested him. The trail of gunpowder at his feet would never be lit.

D............................................................................................
He was tortured and questioned about the other plotters in the Tower of London. To start with he didn't tell the soldiers anything about the plot. But, eventually he started to tell the truth.

E............................................................................................
King James survived and ordered that the people of England should have a great bonfire on the night on 5th November. The event is still commemorated annually in England on 5th November by fireworks and burning ‘guys’ (effigies) on bonfires.


Exercise 2ºESO

Watch a video about the Bonfire Night celebrations in the UK. Put the numbers in order as you hear
them.

hundreds      20,000       7:15pm      4,000       7:45pm       5th November
180                    6pm                         400 years ago

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Exercise 2ºESO

Watch the video again and write more information about each of the number in exercise 3a.


Exercise 3º-4º ESO.

Answer the following questions with your own words:

1. Why do English people gather around bonfires on November 5th?
2. Who is Guy Fawkes?
3. How was Guy Fawkes discovered?
4. What happened to Guy Fawkes in the end?
5. How do English people celebrate this festivity?







I suppose many of you have already watched "V de Vendetta", a movie based on the story of Guy Fowkes and his group. This event also makes us think of a very well-known poem from the XVIII in the UK.





English Folk Verse (c.1870)

    Remember, remember!
    The fifth of November,
    The Gunpowder treason and plot;
    I know of no reason
    Why the Gunpowder treason
    Should ever be forgot!
    Guy Fawkes and his companions
    Did the scheme contrive,
    To blow the King and Parliament
    All up alive.
    Threescore barrels, laid below,
    To prove old England's overthrow.
    But, by God's providence, him they catch,
    With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
    A stick and a stake
    For King James's sake!
    If you won't give me one,
    I'll take two,
    The better for me,
    And the worse for you.
    A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
    A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
    A pint of beer to wash it down,
    And a jolly good fire to burn him.
    Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!

    Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save 

2 comentarios:

  1. Hello, this celebration attracted my attention, so I searched some more information and here are my answers to the exercise:
    1. They burn dummies of Guy Fawkes, and it is a good reason to spend a great time with family or friends.
    2. Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in a protestant family. His father died when Guy was eight years old after which his mother married a recusant Catholic and he converted to Catholicism. He fought in Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant. Later he met Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England and planned to assassinate King James I to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne.
    3. Guy Fawkes was discovered by a royal official and Edward Doubleday while he was using the alias John Johnson, and his gunpowder.
    4. Guy Fawkes lied that his name was John Johnson and that his intention was to blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains. But he was subjected at a torture and he confessed. Guy Fawkes was executed on January 1st 1606.
    5. Generally, 5 November celebrations are run by local charities and other organisations, in the evening the people gather around bonfires and later they get off fireworks.

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  2. Hello. The exercises are very good. They have helped me to improve my answers. Thank you very much for making this blog.☺☺����

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