Special 6. Guy Fawkes Day (Enseignant) - Audio

Published: Nov. 4, 2010, 9:30 a.m.

b'It\\u2019s the fifth of November, Guy Fawkes Day!\\n\\nIn the seventeenth century, in Great Britain, Catholics were not allowed to practice their religion. So a small group of Catholics decided to blow up Parliament and the King to protest.\\n\\nA man called Guy Fawkes was left to light the gunpowder but he was caught and the King was saved. To remember this day, on the fifth of November, British people burn a model of Guy Fawkes on a fire and watch fireworks.\\n\\nFireworks make lots of colours and are very noisy.\\nPeople eat sausages, baked potatoes and a kind of cake called tiffin.\\nOn this day in school children say this rhyme:\\n\\n\\nRemember, Remember the fifth of November,\\nGunpowder, treason and plot,\\nI see no reason why gunpowder treason\\nShould ever be forgot'