GUY FAWKES NIGHT or BONFIRE NIGHT
Guy Fawkes is also known as “cracker night”, “bonfire night” or “fireworks night”. It is celebrated mostly in the United Kingdom and (due to colonisation) in Australia and New Zealand.
It takes place annually on the fifth of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gun Powder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes,(chief of the explosives and military command) attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
The purpose of the plot was to kill king James I and end with the protestant rule at the Houses of Parliament during the state opening ceremony of the Parliamentary year.
In the United Kingdom celebrations take place in towns and villages across the country in the form of both private and civic events. They involve firework displays, and the building of bonfires on which traditionally effigies of Guy Fawkes (member of the plot) are burnt. Before the fifth of November, children use the effigies to request “ a penny for the guy” in order to raise funds with which to buy fireworks, a tradition that seems to be losing due to the “trick or treat” of American Halloween.
In the old times it was typical to eat black treacle goods, toffee apples, baked potatoes (which used to be baked on the bonfire) and black peas with vinegar.
In the zone of England, known as the Black Country (west midlands, north and west to Birmingham, and staffordshire) it is typical to eat groaty pudding. (made with soaked groats, beef, leeks, onion, and beef stock)
This traditional song refers to the Gunpowder plot:
Remember, remember
The fifth of November
The gunpowder, treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Fawkes at midnight
And by torchlight there was found,
With long matches and devices, underground.
Guy Fawkes is also known as “cracker night”, “bonfire night” or “fireworks night”. It is celebrated mostly in the United Kingdom and (due to colonisation) in Australia and New Zealand.
It takes place annually on the fifth of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gun Powder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes,(chief of the explosives and military command) attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
The purpose of the plot was to kill king James I and end with the protestant rule at the Houses of Parliament during the state opening ceremony of the Parliamentary year.
In the United Kingdom celebrations take place in towns and villages across the country in the form of both private and civic events. They involve firework displays, and the building of bonfires on which traditionally effigies of Guy Fawkes (member of the plot) are burnt. Before the fifth of November, children use the effigies to request “ a penny for the guy” in order to raise funds with which to buy fireworks, a tradition that seems to be losing due to the “trick or treat” of American Halloween.
In the old times it was typical to eat black treacle goods, toffee apples, baked potatoes (which used to be baked on the bonfire) and black peas with vinegar.
In the zone of England, known as the Black Country (west midlands, north and west to Birmingham, and staffordshire) it is typical to eat groaty pudding. (made with soaked groats, beef, leeks, onion, and beef stock)
This traditional song refers to the Gunpowder plot:
Remember, remember
The fifth of November
The gunpowder, treason and plot
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Fawkes at midnight
And by torchlight there was found,
With long matches and devices, underground.
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VOCABULARY:
* foiling: frustrating
* cooking foil: Papel de aluminio
* take place: happen
* blow up: make it explode
* involve: enclose, include
* effigy: sculpture representing a person
* raise funds: collect money
* treacle goods: productos garrapiñados
* foiling: frustrating
* cooking foil: Papel de aluminio
* take place: happen
* blow up: make it explode
* involve: enclose, include
* effigy: sculpture representing a person
* raise funds: collect money
* treacle goods: productos garrapiñados
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