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1、A PARTICULAR BRITISHCELEBRATIONReading taskUnit2 Workbook On the fifth of November 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.There is a festivity dedicated to Guy Fawkes and it is called Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night.On that night people light fireworks and make bonfires.1. Fill
2、in the timeline.Oct.10 27 28 293031 Catesby asked Guy Fawkesto join a plot to blow up the government.The two bought a house close to the Houses of Parliament.They stored gunpowder in the cellars for the next three days.Nov. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Parliament was opened and there were celebrations because the pl
3、ot had failed. King James had the cellarssearched when he heard of the plan. He found Fawkes. Get into four. You are going to retell this story in a group. Decide whether you would like to be Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, King James or an eyewitness. Think about what your character would say or do. Wh
4、en you are ready, practice your speech so that you tell the story as a group. Be prepared to do it in front of the class.Taskintroduce your character and explain reasons for your behavior.discuss whether you behaved sensibly or not;Finally discuss what might have happened if King James had kept his
5、promise.Things to remember: My character is Robert Gatesby. I want to kill the king and replace him with another king who is kinder to Catholics. My family have suffered a lot during the bad treatment of Catholics. So I think I am right to do what I am doing.Sample recount of the story:1 Before list
6、ening, read the exercises and predict what the listening is about.Listening task2 Listen to Parts 1 and 2 of the tape and answer the following question:Who does the interviewer think caused the problem? The interviewer thinks King James caused the problem because he changed his mind. First he let th
7、e Catholics worship as they liked. Then when he saw how many of them there were he decided not to let them worship as they liked. This made the Catholics very upset.1. King James was a Catholic. 2. King James supported Protestants.3. He never allowed the Catholics to practise their religion.4. The k
8、ing thought there were few Catholics at first.5. The king was consistent in his attitude towards the Catholics.6. The interviewer supported the king.3 Listen to Part 1 and decide which of the following statements are true and which are false.FTFTFF4 Listen to Part 2 and answer the following question
9、s.Why did King James change his attitude to the Catholics?2. Why was he afraid of the Catholics?3. Why didnt he want England to be a Catholics country?4. Did King James talk about his worry to Fawkes and Catesby?5. Why did the interviewer say that the king had brought about the conflict? Why did Kin
10、g James change his attitude to the Catholics?King James changed his attitude to the Catholics because he was frightenedwhen he saw how many of them there were.2. Why was he afraid of the Catholics?All the countries that were friendly to England were Protestant and all the countries that were not fri
11、endly were Catholic.3. Why didnt he want England to be a Catholics country?4. Did King James talk about his worry to Fawkes and Catesby?Then he would lose the friendship of all the Protestant countries.No, he didnt.5. Why did the interviewer say that the king had brought about the conflict? The king
12、 changed his mind and upset the Catholics. He did not discuss things with them. They felt their only action was to kill him. King James attitudeto Catholicsto foreign countries to Protestants5 Listen to the whole text and fill in the chart below.1 friendly to Protestant countries2 unfriendly to Cath
13、olic ones1 at first not worried2 then stopped Catholic servicespro/support ProtestantForeign countriesDealing with CatholicsAll Britains friends were Protestant countriesTry to be friends with other countries, too.Very unkind. No evidence they wanted to hurt the king before this.It would have been b
14、etter to have trusted the Catholics more.LISTENING TEXTWAS KING JAMES FAIR?A Catholic supporter (CS) is interviewing King James (KJ) to find out why he changed his mind about letting the Catholics practise their religion as they wished.Part1 CS: Good morning sir. Thank you for coming to talk to me a
15、bout the attack that was planned for November 6th. It was so lucky you escaped.KJ: Yes. I was very upset, of course. I couldnt believe that anyone would want to kill me. What did I ever do to Guy Fawkes and his friends?CS: But, sir, youre the person who caused this problem by changing your mind. Fir
16、st of all you let the Catholics practise their religion safely. Then you said it was no longer allowed. You must have known they would get upset.KJ: Please try to understand my difficulty. I thought there were only a few Catholics in the country. CS: Why did you think so?KJ: Well, because only a few
17、 people were put in prison every year for not going to the Protestant church.CS: I see. So you thought these were the only Catholics.KJ: Yes.Part 2KJ: When I relaxed the law there seemed to be so many Catholics that I felt I had done the wrong thing. I got frightened. I worried that they might want
18、England to be a Catholic country.CS: Does that matter?KJ: Oh yes. All our friends are Protestant countries and all our enemies are Catholic ones.CS: Mm! Did you ask Fawkes and Catesby if that was what they wanted? KJ: No.CS: So the attack was planned. Actually you brought about what you wanted to avoid. What did you learn from it?KJ: I should have talked to the Catholics. If Id done that there wouldnt have been an attack because they would have been able to explain their point of view pe
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