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GUY FAWKES ’ NIGHT

GUY FAWKES ’ NIGHT. Exceptional and real celebration. Guy Fawkes’ Night on November 5 th celebrates the attempt by Guy Fawkes to destroy the Houses of Parliament in 1605. The Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) viewed from across the  River Thames.

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GUY FAWKES ’ NIGHT

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  1. GUYFAWKES ’NIGHT

  2. Exceptional and real celebration • Guy Fawkes’ Night on November 5th celebrates the attempt by Guy Fawkes to destroy the Houses of Parliament in 1605. The Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) viewed from across the River Thames

  3. Guy Fawkes’ Night also known as Bonfire Night • Guy Fawkes’ Night is alsoknown as Bonfire Night. It’ s celebrated on 5 novembersince 1605. It was started in the United Kingdom. Festivities in Windsor Castle during Guy Fawkes’Night.

  4. Important and legendary figure – Guy Fawkes • Guy Fawkeswas born on April 13, 1570 and died on January 31, 1606. He is also known as Guido Fawkes.Guy Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Guy waseight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic. GuyFawkes

  5. Why Guido Fawkes ? • Guido Fawkes was the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries. He belonged to a group of provincial English Catholics. They planned to stop the Gunpowder Plotof 1605.

  6. Events during Guy Fawkes’ Night • On the night of 4 / 5 November, Fawkes was found with 36 barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of Parliament. • Subsequent investigation revealed (lasting two years), a conspiracy of a small group of English Catholics. • The plan was to detonate the load at the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament and kill the samenobility, bishops and members of the House of Commons.

  7. Events during Guy Fawkes’ Night continued • The author of the plan was not in fact Fawkes, intheconspiracytook part Thomas Percy and Robert Catesby.After 2 months of the process, assassins – a total of eight, were sentenced to death by hanging and quartered. A contemporary engraving of eight of the thirteen conspirators, by Crispijn van de Passe. Fawkes is third from the right.

  8. Traditions and customs during this celebration • Most people make their own ‘guy’ to burn out of old clothes • Tradition on this day are the fireworks and festivities

  9. Traditions and customs during this celebration continued • Children stand on the street and say ‘penny for the guy’ • In Lewes, a town in East Sussex, the town decides on one ‘evil’ person to burn each year. They make a giant ’guy’ and walk through the streets with flaming torches

  10. British Customs • In Britain, people traditionallyconsume on Guy Fawkes’ Night dishes such as: • Black treacle (goods such as bonfire toffee andparkin - cake) • Baked potatoes • Toffeeapples • Potato pie with pickled red cabbage • Black peas with vinegar Black treacle Bonfire toffee

  11. British Customs continued Toffee apples Parkin - cake (More treacle or brown sugar gives parkin adark colour‎) Baked potato

  12. Fireworks Fireworks have been a traditional part of the celebration since 1677. Nowadays fireworks areknownas pyrotechnics. A Guy Fawkes’ Night Firework Display A pyrotechnic fountain

  13. Bonfire Night on 5 November 2010 An effigy of Guy Fawkes, burnt on 5 November 2010 atBillericay in Essex Revellers in Lewes, 5 November 2010

  14. Bonfire Night on 5 November 2010 continued Spectators gather around a bonfire, on 5 November 2010 A fireworks display on 5 November 2010

  15. In the movie V for Vendetta, V, said a short poem: ‘Remember, remember the fifth of NovemberThe Gunpowder Treason and PlotI know of no reason,Why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot... ‘

  16. Bibliography • Longman Egzamin Gimnazjalny z języka angielskiego, podręcznik i repetytorium z testami, Rod Fricker/ Jerzy Gaszewski , Tomasz Siuta/ Marta Umińska, Konsultacja Barbara Czarnecka-Cicha/ Anna Badetko • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night • http://forum.aupairpoland.com.pl/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=724 • http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001590 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes • http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spisek_prochowy • Wielki Słownik PWN – OXFORD • http://englishblog.pl/guy-fawkes-night

  17. The presentation was made by Paulina Janus  Thank You For Your Attention

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