Hi, everyone. The historical figure I've chosen for my mini-presentation today is Guy Fawkes. I'm pretty sure the name will be familiar to you. ____, we do have a well-known celebration named after him. I expect, however, that you might not know much about his story. ____, I don't have time to tell you everything about him in just five minutes, but let's start with some information about his early life.... Despite his parents being members of the Church of England, ____ Protestants, Fawke's mother remarried a Catholic after his father's death. Several years later, Fawkes became influenced by his stepfather's religious practices, and those of his school friends, and converted to Catholicism, even though it was ____ a crime to be a Catholic at that time in England.... ....While fighting for the Spanish in 1604, Fawkes met Thomas Wintour, who encouraged him to join a group of conspirators in a plot to assessinate the new Protestant king of England. ____, interestingly, the king was both James VI and I. He was king of Scotland as James VI and later king of England as James I. ____, back to what I was saying about Guy Fawkes..... ....So, over the next 18 months, Fawkes and 12 others worked out a careful plan. ____, they plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament, kill the king, and replace him with a Catholic monarch. ____ the method was concerned, they decided to use gunpowder. Thirty-six barrels of it, to be precise. They placed these in the cellar and planned to set them alight when the king opened parliament on 5 November. The plan was bound to succeed, or ____ that is what the conspirators thought! ...Fawkes was sentenced to death and executed. Now, every year on 5 November, people mark the anniversary of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot by setting off fireworks and building large bonfires. And that brings me to the end of my presentation. ____, I think it's fair to say that Guy Fawkes led a very eventful life, driven by his cause. If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.

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