Bonfire Night activities• Discuss what children already know about Bonfire night• Watch ‘remember remember’ video and listen out for the

date of Bonfire Night• Do vocab quiz• Watch extract from BBC video and discuss why we

celebrate it• Watch extract from British Life video and discuss how we

celebrate it• Blockbuster team game to recap• Hotseating activity where either a pupil or me is GF, other

pupils ask questions

Bonfire NightWhat? When? Why?

Important words to discuss Bonfire Night

5 Vocab Quiz BN.pptx

Remember remember

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMH1AimA72w

Listen to hear the date of Bonfire Night.

Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night in the UK?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcyXMLz3fK0 2:01

Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night in the UK?

What is the man’s name?

What did he try to do?

Why do we celebrate?

Why did Guy Fawkes try to blow up Parliament?

the Catholic church

How do we celebrate Bonfire Night?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnq7aqHLCSM 2:50

How do we celebrate Bonfire Night?

What do we do?

Where do we go?

What do we eat?

What is the weather like? What should you wear?

Name of

G___F_____

Some-thing you

might eat

Some-thing you

might do

Date of Bonfire Night La

poudre à

canon

What did GF try to do?

Le complo

t

Le Palais

de West-

minster

Some-thing

you put on the bonfire

What is the

weather like?

Some-thing you

might eat

Le grand

feu

What is a

sparkler?

La trahiso

n

Le feu d’arti-

fice

What should

you wear?

Some-thing you

might do

Faire expl-oser

Hotseating

What questions can we ask Guy Fawkes?