Reading Activities: Task A
Read, translate and complete with the missing parts of the sentences.
Bonfire Night is 1) . It marks an important event in British history: the night that Guy Fawkes and a group of conspirators tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London.
Over four hundred years later, we continue 2) to celebrate the failure of the' gunpowder plot'. Last year, I was in Leeds for Bonfire Night. Leeds City Council puts on a fantastic firework display in my local park, 3). Lots of people go to see the display which lasts for around thirty minutes. I went with a group of friends and neighbours. It was a cold evening, so we were all wearing hats, gloves and scarves! The bonfire was huge and gave off a bright orange glow. There were lots of different types of fireworks, such as rockets and fountains. Some of the fireworks were very loud and I had 4). The fireworks were colourful and sparkly and I managed 5). It was a great evening and I'll definitely be going next year 6) !
Often people eat toffee apples on Bonfire Night. These are apples on a lolly stick, 7). They are usually eaten by children, but anyone can enjoy them! There are several variations of the toffee apple, such as caramel apples and chocolate apples.
As this is a British tradition, 8) while living in France. Luckily, there are other things going on here in Alsace and 9)!

A. it is something I won't be experiencing this year
B. to cover my ears
C. which is free to attend
D. which have been dipped in toffee
E. when I'm back in the UK
F. it's not long until the famous Christmas markets
G. an event which takes place every year on the 5th November
H. to light bonfires across the United Kingdom
I. to take a few nice photos
Task B
Read the text and decide if the statements are true or false:
UK, GB, British Isles – What’s in a name? Nationality, or national identity, can be a complex issue for those of us from Britain. Take me for example. I was born in England, but my Mum is Scottish and my Granny is from Northern Ireland. Now I live and study in Scotland. So what am I? I am both English and British. But can I claim my Scottish and (Northern) Irish nationalities as well? And why don’t we all just say we’re ‘British’?
When we Brits travel abroad we often confuse people as we try to explain why we have such muddled identities. So let me try to shed some light on the issue… The skinny island that contains England, Scotland and Wales is called Great Britain (GB). When you include Northern Ireland (the country in the north-eastern part of Ireland) we call it the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). And the British Isles are both GB and Ireland as well as all the little places lying off the coast, like the Isle of Man.
But beyond these geographical terms, it’s impossible to separate nationality from national pride. Everyone’s passports describe them as ‘British citizens’ but many will choose to identify themselves as Welsh or Northern Irish, for example. Each of the ‘home nations’ (as we refer to the four countries – England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) has a