22/04/2016 Newsround


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Morning, guys, Ricky here live with your Friday Newsround.

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400 years on from William Shakespeare's death,

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And hundreds of beacons are lit up for the Queen's birthday.

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First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans.

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It's 400 years since the death of the country's best known

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Leah is in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon,

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Leah, it looks like you're back at school!

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Well, this is where we think Shakespeare began his education.

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He would have been about six or seven.

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It's here where he would have learnt about Greek classics

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Local children are going in right now to experience her Tudor

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classroom. I've been finding out why

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William Shakespeare Without even knowing it,

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we owe quite a lot of the language It's thought he came up with words

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like excellent, gloomy, and even coined the phrase

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"budge an inch." The thing is with Shakespeare,

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you don't have to understand What I love about him is, if you get

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a grasp of characters and themes, And that's happening

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at this school in Cheshire. Kids are tackling one of his more

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complicated tragedies, King Lear. I'll trick him into thinking

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that Father hates him. This class are part of

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the children's Shakespeare Festival. They're rehearsing for a big

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performance at Manchester's Exchange Theatre, and some had never heard

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of William Shakespeare before now. It's just incredible how long his

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plays have been going on for. Until about seven years old,

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I didn't really know about, What I find impressive is the fact

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that he wrote around 38 plays Shakespeare really made a name

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for himself when he travelled to London, and one man who knows

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pretty much everything about Shakespeare is

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author Michael Rosen. A girl from a primary school once

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told me, she said, the thing about Shakespeare is, you get

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to the big stuff really quickly. You get to stuff like love and death

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and greed and jealousy and hate, all those big feelings,

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and you get to them really quickly. For these children, the hope is,

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400 years on from today, everyone will still be

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talking about Britain's At 8:15am, I will go inside to

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experience a chewed a classroom. Go online to find out what Macbeth is

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all about. -- a Tudor classroom. All in celebration of Shakespeare

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400, 400 years since his death. US President Barack Obama

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is in the UK for a three-day visit. He arrived by plane last night

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from Saudi Arabia. Obama is set to talk about how

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he thinks the UK should work He'll also be having some fun

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though, he and First Lady Michelle are having lunch with

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the Queen today. Well, Her Majesty has been

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celebrating her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle by lighting

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the first of nearly 900 beacons, dotted here in the UK

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and around the world. From the Shetland Islands

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in Scotland to Wales' capital While in Gibraltar,

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they beamed this image Arsenal have moved to third spot

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in the Premier League race after beating West Bromwich Albion

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last night. But there were quite a few empty

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seats, with some fans not turning up to watch Alexis Sanchez score twice

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in the first half and take his The Gunners have four games

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left to play. Now, yesterday we told you how

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an important spelling test Half a million children

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in England were going to take But teachers noticed

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that the test paper had been uploaded to the internet,

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so some children already Well, now the schools minister

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for England has been They're still trying to work out how

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the tests ended up online. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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right here in about half an hour.

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