British Holidays Guy Fawkes Day
hi everyone I’m Gina remember remember
the fifth of November gunpowder treason
and plot if you live in the UK you will
know that rhyme and what it means if you
don’t then you soon well it refers to
Guy Fawkes Day an annual celebration on
the 5th of November in this lesson
you’re going to learn about what Guy
Fawkes Day is and how it is celebrated
why did people in the UK first start to
celebrate Guy Fawkes Day will show you
the answer at the end of this video
Guy Fawkes Day celebrates a failure of
Guy Fawkes and his accomplices in their
plot to kill King James are first in
1605 Forks and his friends plan to blow
up the houses of parliament with the
Protestant King inside and replace him
with a Catholic monarch however their
plot was discovered and they were
arrested and later executed for treason
we celebrate Guy Fawkes Day by lighting
large bonfires
and setting our fireworks the
celebrations are also called bonfire
night people may go to organised
firework displays or have smaller
parties in their gardens
fireworks are a large part of the
celebrations and although the event is
on the 5th of November it isn’t unusual
to hear fireworks throughout October -
another way of marking the day is by the
making of a guy a guy is a homemade
dummy that is usually made to resemble
Guy Fawkes himself
it used to be commonplace to see
children with their guys asking for
money by shouting penny for the guy but
this tradition is not as popular in
recent years the guys are thrown onto
the bonfires and burnt
the image of die Forks has become very
popular in recent years due to Guy
Fawkes masks being used in the film V
for Vendetta and also by the online
group Anonymous and now I’ll give you
the answer to the earlier quiz why did
people in the UK first start to
celebrate Guy Fawkes Day the
celebrations of Guy Fawkes Day began
because the government in 1605 enforced
a public day of celebration the public
had no choice but to light bonfires and
celebrate the failure of the plot how is
this lesson did you learn something
interesting do you have any events or
festivals that you celebrate with
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we’ll see you in the next lesson bye
you