Unit 2 The United Kingdom-Reading task

(共27张PPT)
A PARTICULAR BRITISH
CELEBRATION
Reading task
Unit2 Workbook
On the fifth of November 1605 Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.
There is a festivity dedicated to
Guy Fawkes and it is called Bonfire
Night or Guy Fawkes’ Night. On that night people light fireworks
and make bonfires.
1. Fill in the timeline.
Oct.10
27
28
29
30
31
Catesby asked Guy Fawkes
to join a plot to blow up the
government.
The two bought a house close to
the Houses of Parliament.
They stored gunpowder in the
cellars for the next three days.
Nov. 1
2
3
4
5
6
Parliament was opened and
there were celebrations because the
plot had failed.
King James had the cellars
searched when he heard of the plan.
He found Fawkes.
Get into four. You are going to retell this story in a group. Decide whether you would like to be Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, King James or an eyewitness. Think about what your character would say or do. When you are ready, practice your speech so that you tell the story as a group. Be prepared to do it in front of the class.
Task
introduce your character and explain reasons for your behavior.
discuss whether you behaved sensibly or not;
Finally discuss what might have happened if King James had kept his promise.
Things to remember:
My character is Robert Gatesby. I want to kill the king and replace him with another king who is kinder to Catholics. My family have suffered a lot during the bad treatment of Catholics. So I think I am right to do what I am doing.
Sample recount of the story:
1 Before listening, read the exercises and predict what the listening is about.
Listening task
2 Listen to Parts 1 and 2 of the tape and answer the following question:
Who does the interviewer think
caused the problem
The interviewer thinks King James
caused the problem because he changed
his mind. First he let the Catholics
worship as they liked. Then when he
saw how many of them there were he
decided not to let them worship as they
liked. This made the Catholics very upset.
1. King James was a Catholic.
2. King James supported Protestants.
3. He never allowed the Catholics to practise their religion.
4. The king thought there were few Catholics at first.
5. The king was consistent in his
attitude towards the Catholics.
6. The interviewer supported the king.
3 Listen to Part 1 and decide which of
the following statements are true and
which are false.
F
T
F
T
F
F
4 Listen to Part 2 and answer the
following questions.
Why did King James change his attitude to the Catholics
2. Why was he afraid of the Catholics
3. Why didn’t he want England to be a Catholics country
4. Did King James talk about his worry
to Fawkes and Catesby
5. Why did the interviewer say that the
king had brought about the conflict
Why did King James change his attitude to the Catholics
King James changed his attitude to
the Catholics because he was frightened
when he saw how many of them there
were.
2. Why was he afraid of the Catholics
All the countries that were friendly to
England were Protestant and all the
countries that were not friendly were
Catholic.
3. Why didn’t he want England to be a Catholics country
4. Did King James talk about his worry
to Fawkes and Catesby
Then he would lose the friendship of all the Protestant countries.
No, he didn’t.
5. Why did the interviewer say that the
king had brought about the conflict
The king changed his mind and upset
the Catholics. He did not discuss
things with them. They felt their only
action was to kill him.
King James’ attitude
to Catholics
to foreign countries
to Protestants
5 Listen to the whole text and fill in the chart below.
1 friendly to Protestant
countries
2 unfriendly to Catholic
ones
1 at first not worried
2 then stopped Catholic
services
pro/support Protestant
Foreign countries
Dealing with Catholics
All Britain's friends were Protestant countries
Try to be friends with other countries, too.
Very unkind. No evidence they wanted to hurt the king before this.
It would have been better to have trusted the Catholics more.
LISTENING TEXT
WAS KING JAMES FAIR
A Catholic supporter (CS) is interviewing King James (KJ) to find out why he changed his mind about letting the Catholics practise their religion as they wished.
Part1
CS: Good morning sir. Thank you for coming to talk to me about the attack that was planned for November 6th. It was so lucky you escaped.
KJ: Yes. I was very upset, of course. I couldn’t believe that anyone would want to kill me. What did I ever do to Guy Fawkes and his friends
CS: But, sir, you’re the person who caused this problem by changing your mind. First of all you let the Catholics practise their religion safely. Then you said it was no longer allowed. You must have known they would get upset.
KJ: Please try to understand my difficulty. I thought there were only a few Catholics in the country.
CS: Why did you think so
KJ: Well, because only a few people were put in prison every year for not going to the Protestant church.
CS: I see. So you thought these were the only Catholics.
KJ: Yes.
Part 2
KJ: When I relaxed the law there seemed to be so many Catholics that I felt I had done the wrong thing. I got frightened. I worried that they might want England to be a Catholic country.
CS: Does that matter
KJ: Oh yes. All our friends are Protestant countries and all our enemies are Catholic ones.
CS: Mm! Did you ask Fawkes and Catesby if that was what they wanted
KJ: No.
CS: So the attack was planned. Actually you brought about what you wanted to avoid. What did you learn from it
KJ: I should have talked to the Catholics. If I’d done that there wouldn’t have been an attack because they would have been able to explain their point of view peacefully.
CS: Thank you, sir. Goodbye.
KJ: Goodbye.
Is there anything at school or at home that you feel very strongly about
Writing task
Make a list of things that you feel are important. Choose one that you think is the most serious problem. Make a plan to try and solve it peacefully.