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    Inside Out

    e-lesson

    Week starting: 1st November 2004

    1. The Gunpowder Plot


    Nearly four hundred years ago, a group of 13 committed men devised a plan to blow up the
    British Parliament killing the king and all the politicians, something we may all have been
    tempted to try. However, these men may have in their dastardly plot had it not been for one
    man who just couldnt keep a secret Read all about it in this weeks worksheet.
    Level
    Good Intermediate upwards
    How to use the lesson
    1. Give one copy of Worksheet A to each student in the class. Focus their attention on the
    newspaper story on the left-hand side. Give students a couple of minutes to read through the
    story and answer the question in 1. (Answer: He (and his friends) wanted to blow up the
    King and the Government).
    2. Direct students attention to the questions on the right of the page. Ask them to read the
    questions. Give out Worksheet B and ask them to work in pairs to find the answers to the
    questions.
    3. Check answers in open class.
    Answers to 2.
    1. Guy Fawkes
    2. York
    3. 36
    4. Robert Catesby
    5. Francis Tresham
    6. 13
    7. They were captured

    8. Four were shot. The rest were


    hanged.
    9. Families build bonfires, light
    fireworks and eat potatoes and
    sausages.
    10. A model of Guy Fawkes,
    which is burned on a bonfire.

    Follow up
    Use the links below to create a project about Guy Fawkes. The burning of bonfires is also
    connected to the Celtic origins of Halloween; your students may like to make a joint
    presentation of the origins of the two festivals.
    2. Related Websites
    Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
    http://www.bonefire.org/guy/index.php
    Tells the whole story.
    http://www.innotts.co.uk/asperges/fawkes/indexx.html
    Listen to the introduction. Then follow the pages by clicking on the arrow at the bottom right
    of the page.
    http://www.cyberwitch.com/Wychwood/Temple/hallows.htm
    According to this, Bonfire Night is just Samhain (Celtic end-of-summer festival) in disguise.
    This page has been downloaded from www.insideout.net.
    It is photocopiable, but all copies must be complete pages. Copyright Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004.

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