Lesson Level: Junior Duration: 40
Lesson Title: Bonfire Night
Grammar and
Vocabulary
Bonfire, Barrel, Gunpowder, Bomb, Guy Fawkes,
Guy, Penny for the Guy, Baked Potato, Sausage, Marshmallow
Lesson Objectives
Students will learn about the British
tradition of Bonfire Night
Students
will practice pronunciation.
Materials Required
Images
of Vocabulary items
Blutac
or some other method to pin pictures to the board.
Preparation
Prepare
images. They must EITHER be large enough to pin to the board OR provided on a
handout with enough handouts for one per two students.
Prepare
the listening text.
Procedure
1
Write the title “Bonfire
Night/Guy Fawkes Night” on the board.
Ask if anyone knows
what it is. (They probably won’t)
2
Put class into groups
of four.
3
Tell class that soon
you will tell them that it is an English Festival that no other country in the
world has.
Explain new vocabulary.
Put pictures on the
board one by one.
Elicit / explain the
new words, write them on the board under the pictures.
Practice repeating
each word.
4
Write these questions
on the board.
When is Bonfire Night?
When do we make our Guy?
How do we get money?
Why do we want money?
What do we do on Bonfire Night?
What do we like to eat?
What did Guy Fawkes want to do?
How did he want to do it?
Did he do it? Why?
5.
Read the text twice.
Groups must write the answers.
Ask the questions
after the second reading.
Get feedback from the
groups and write the answers on the board.
6
Put new questions on
board and check understanding.
What festivals do you
have in your country?
When do you have
fireworks?
Would you like to
have a bonfire party?
Why?
7
Give new
instructions.
Your group is going
to have a bonfire party.
What food will you
eat? Make a menu.
Remember the food
must be…
Something
you can cook in the fire.
Something
everyone will like.
Something
to eat outside.
Something
you can eat standing up.
Assist the groups in
making their menus, get feedback from various groups about what they would like
to cook for their party.
Extension Task
Teach students the
nursery Rhyme
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
Notes
1.
Text
for listening exercise.
Every
year in England on November the fifth there is a festival that everyone
celebrates.
We
make a man from old clothes and newspaper. This is called the Guy. We do this
one week before Bonfire Night. Then we take it from house to house and say “Penny
for the Guy”. We want people to give us a little money. If we make a good Guy
people give more money.
We
use the money to buy fireworks.
On
Bonfire Night we build big fires in our gardens. We burn the Guy on the fire.
We
eat potatoes and sausages and marshmallows cooked in the fire.
We
have lots of fireworks.
Why
do we do this?
Many
years ago a man named Guy Fawkes didn’t like the king and wanted to kill him.
They
planned to kill him with a big bomb made from barrels of gunpowder.
Luckily
the King found out about the plot and Guy Fawkes and his friends were caught
and the King was safe.
So
every year we celebrate this on November the Fifth
2.
Pictures can be obtained from the internet.
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