Lesson Level: Senior Duration: 45 Minutes
Lesson Title: Bonfire Night Senior Version
Grammar and
Vocabulary
Bonfire,
Barrel, Gunpowder, Bomb, Guy Fawkes, Guy, Penny for the Guy, Baked Potato,
Sausage, Marshmallow, Treason, Plot, Effigy
.
Lesson Objectives
Students will learn about the British
tradition of Bonfire Night
Students
will practice pronunciation.
Students
will discuss historical festivals.
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 “Bonfire
Night/Guy Fawkes Night” on the board.
Elicit from students
any prior knowledge that they might have about it.
2
Put class into groups
of four to six students.
Go through new
vocabulary using pictures where available.
Elicit and explain
the meanings.
3
Put these questions
on the board
.
When do we celebrate
Bonfire Night?
What do we do to
celebrate?
What is the
traditional way to raise money to buy fireworks?
What do we say to ask
for the money?
Why do we ask for so
little?
How do we cook the
food that we eat?
What do we burn
during the celebration.
What did Guy Fawkes
and his friends want to do?
How did they intend
to do it?
Why did they fail?
What happened to them
afterwards?
4
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.
5.
Put new questions on
board for group discussion.
Do you think this is
a good thing to celebrate? Why?
Does your country
have any festivals that celebrate historical events?
Is it a good way to
remember our history?
Students in groups
discuss their ideas and feedback
6
In groups.
Choose a traditional
festival in your country.
Make a list of the
things that you do for the festival including how you celebrate, any special
foods that you eat, when the festival takes place and why you celebrate this
festival.
Some Chinese
festivals you might choose are
Chinese New Year
Lantern Festival
Qingming (Tomb Sweeping Day)
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid Autumn Day
If you know any
others you can choose them.
7
Notes
Listening
Text
There is a
traditional festival that is only celebrated in England. It is celebrated every
Fifth of November and is called Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night.
The way
that we celebrate is by building big fires in our gardens and parks and burning
the effigy of a man. It represents Guy Fawkes. We also eat lots of food that we
cook in the fire and have lots of fireworks. To get money for the fireworks we
make the effigy, which we call the “Guy”, a week or two before the festival.
Then we ask people to give us money. The better the guy the more money they
might give us. We ask for money by saying “penny for the guy”. A penny is a
very small amount of money but the festival has happened for hundreds of years
and when it started a penny was worth much more than it is now.
So that’s
the celebration but why do we do it? Who was Guy Fawkes?
Guy Fawkes
was one of a group of people who did not like King James or his Government and
they made a plot to kill him. They were going to do this by putting a big bomb
made from barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of the Government on a day when
the King was going to visit.
It might
have worked but they were betrayed and the King found out about the plot. His
guards searched the cellars and found the bomb. The Plotters were arrested and
the King and Government were saved. The plotters were tried for treason and
executed by hanging.
Every year
since then we have celebrated the way that the King was saved by having parties
all over England. Almost every family will have a bonfire and fireworks. In England
it is far more important than Halloween.
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