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Morning, guys, Ricky here live with your Friday Newsround. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
I'm at William Shakespeare's old school 400 years on from his death. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
And these kids in Leicester on why the Foxes can | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
And hundreds of beacons are lit up for the | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
As celebrations kick off to remeber 400 years since the death of | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
Leah is in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
for us this morning and inside a very old class room. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Hello, we are in what would have been William Shakespeare's old | :00:45. | :00:58. | |
school. He would have come here from the ages of around five or six, and | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
it would have looked something like this. There are no desks, there is a | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
teacher at the front of the class, and they are chanting, that is how | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
classes that have gone back then. He was responsible for big plays like | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Romeo and Juliet and a Midsummer nights dream and I have been finding | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
out why is so important. Without even knowing it, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
we owe quite a lot of the language It's thought he came up with words | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
like excellent, gloomy, and even coined the phrase | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
"budge an inch." The thing is with Shakespeare, | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
you don't have to understand What I love about him is, if you get | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
a grasp of characters and themes, And that's happening | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
at this school in Cheshire. Kids are tackling one of his more | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
complicated tragedies, King Lear. I'll trick him into thinking | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
that Father hates him. This class are part of | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
the children's Shakespeare Festival. They're rehearsing for a big | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
performance at Manchester's Exchange Theatre, and some had never heard | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
of William Shakespeare before now. It's just incredible how long his | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
plays have been going on for. Until about seven years old, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
I didn't really know about, What I find impressive is the fact | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
that he wrote around 38 plays Shakespeare really made a name | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
for himself when he travelled to London, and one man who knows | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
pretty much everything about Shakespeare is | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
author Michael Rosen. A girl from a primary school once | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
told me, she said, the thing about Shakespeare is, you get | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
to the big stuff really quickly. You get to stuff like love and death | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
and greed and jealousy and hate, all those big feelings, | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
and you get to them really quickly. For these children, the hope is, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
400 years on from today, everyone will still be | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
talking about Britain's This is still functioning school | :02:51. | :03:06. | |
today. I am joined by the headmaster. The children in my | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
report said that they hope that in 400 years we will still be talking | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
about William Shakespeare, are you surprised we are talking about him | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
not at all. Genius takes various forms, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
various places across the world at different times, but William | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Shakespeare and struck upon a, he was born with a genius to write | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
poems. -- and Stratford upon Avon. This school is going to be open to | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
the public to look around. Pascal, you are experiencing a Tudor lesson, | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
how has it been to be experiencing what William Shakespeare went | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
through? It is interesting to see what subjects they learnt, Latin, | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
rhetoric and greet. Interesting to see how they were taught, they were | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
taught plays in Latin. No desks, is not strange? It is fun to have it on | :04:04. | :04:12. | |
your lap. Was Shakespeare important? Definitely coming he invented a lot | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
of words in English language and made a lot more literate, and I | :04:15. | :04:27. | |
Macbeth is amazing. Talking of Macbeth, head online, Michael Rosen | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
has broken down Macbeth. It is very gory, going have a listen. We all | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
know that Shakespeare was the of comedy. Have a look at some of our | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
bloopers, we did not always get our lines right. We will hand back now. | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
That is my favourite thing on line today, how many times did you get | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
your lines wrong? That is embarrassing, I think about 15 | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
times. But it was a lot of fun. It is brilliant. Check that out on the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
newsround website. US President Barack Obama | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
is in the UK for a three-day visit. He arrived by plane last night | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
from Saudi Arabia. Obama is set to talk about how | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
he thinks the UK should work He'll also be having some fun | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
though, he and First Lady Michelle are having lunch with | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the Queen today. Well, Her Majesty has been | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
celebrating her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle by lighting | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
the first of nearly 900 beacons, dotted here in the UK | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
and around the world. From the Shetland Islands | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
in Scotland to Wales' capital While in Gibraltar, | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
they beamed this image Arsenal have moved to third spot | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
in the Premier League race after beating West Bromwich Albion | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
last night. But there were quite a few empty | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
seats, with some fans not turning up to watch Alexis Sanchez score twice | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
in the first half and take his That's all from me, Newsround's | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
back this afternoon. | :05:55. | :05:58. |