Dictation - Bonfire Night
A bit of help - Guy Fawkes
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Instructions:-
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1. Just listen. I will speak, quite quickly, in a natural voice.
2. Listen and write I will speak more slowly.
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4. Check what you have written.
Dictation Text - Bonfire Night
Though many children in Great Britain look forward to November 5th (Bonfire Night) very few know exactly what they're celebrating.
Guy Fawkes was a Roman Catholic who, in 1605, joined a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament while King James and his ministers were inside. He was caught red-handed, tried and brutally executed the following January.
Every year people celebrate the failure of the so-called 'gunpowder plot' by setting off fireworks and lighting bonfires with a guy on top; a guy is an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
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