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Every year is celebrated in England the Guy Fawkes Day and Bonfire Night on the 5 th of November, this celebration dates back from the Gunpowder Treason Day in 1605, the events known as the Gunpowder Plot in which a group of provincial Catholic Englishmen were condemned to death such as Guy Fawkes in charge of trying to blow up the Parliament in order to assassinate the Protestant king James I and replace in the throne James I´s daughter: the nine year-old princess Elisabeth of Scotland, later queen of Bohemia. Although there were thirteen Catholics accused of the plot, Guy Fawkes was the most well-known mercenary for the Spanish cause in the Dutch wars and many others European wars supporting the Catholic party and he was also caught guarding a hoard of explosives placed beneath the House of Lords. From that year onwards and due to the introduction of the Observance of 5 th November Act enforcing an annual public day to celebrate the failure of the plot´s against the Protestant king

The Present Continuous tense refers to an action that is happening at the time the speaker says the sentence. It is formed by the Auxiliary Verb To Be conjugated in Present Simple (is / are) plus the main verb ending in –ING which translates as a Present Participle or Gerundio into Spanish. Examples: The dogs are barking ---------She is not working now. I am eating a beefsteak-------Are you helping her? They are painting the ceiling----Is he at the office? We are not studying enough----You are watching TV