ACADEMIA EDEL

Bonfire Night �

British people celebrate Bonfire Night every 1.____ on 5 November in memory of a famous event 2.____ British history, the Gunpowder Plot. On 5 November 1605 a group of Roman Catholics planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament while King James I was inside. On the evening before, one 3.____ them, Guy Fawkes, was caught in the cellars with gunpowder (= an explosive), and the plot 4.____ discovered. He and all the other conspirators were put to death. Bonfire Night is sometimes called Guy Fawkes Night.

Originally, Bonfire Night was celebrated 5.____ a victory for Protestants over Catholics, but the festival is now enjoyed 6.____ everyone. Some children make a guy, a figure of a man made of old clothes stuffed 7.____newspaper or straw to represent Guy Fawkes. The guy is then burned on top of a bonfire on Bonfire Night. A 8.____ weeks before, children take their guy into the street and ask for a 'penny for the guy'. They use the money 9.____ buy fireworks (= small packets of explosives which, when lit, make a bang or send a shower of coloured light into the air). Only adults are legally 10.____ to buy fireworks.

Some people hold private bonfire parties in 11.____ gardens, while others attend larger public events organized by local councils or charities. Chestnuts or potatoes are often put in the bonfire so that they will cook as it burns. Fireworks 12.____ as Roman Candles, Catherine Wheels, bangers and rockets are put in the ground and are let off one by one. Children hold lighted sparklers (= metal sticks covered in a hard chemical substance that burns brightly when lit) in their 13.____ and wave them around to make patterns. Unfortunately, there 14. ____ sometimes accidents involving fireworks and there are now restrictions on the type of fireworks that can 15.____ used by the general public.

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