The world shares him and London claims him, but Stratford-on-Avon intends to spend 2016 celebrating Shakespeare as their man: the bard of Avon, who was born there in 1564, and died there 400 years ago. 

Stratford remained hugely important throughout Shakespeare's life, argues Paul Edmondson, the head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. "People have seen Shakespeare as a Dick Whittington figure, who turns his back on Stratford and his family, goes to London to earn his fortune and only comes back to die," he said. "But Stratford is where he bought land and property, where he kept his library, where he lived and read and thought. We are going to spend the year re-emphasizing the importance of Shakespeare, the man of Stratford." 

The anniversary of the death of the most famous and the most performed playwright in the world will be marked across Britain and the globe. Macbeth is about to open in Singapore, Romeo and Juliet in Brussels. Shakespeare's Globe is completing the first world tour, in which it has taken Hamlet to almost every country. North Korea is still holding out, though. 

The Globe director recently jokily claimed Shakespeare as a true Londoner. Stratford, however, will be insisting that the town made and educated Shakespeare. "His old school room in Stratford-on-Avon where Shakespeare learned 'small Latin and less Greek' --as kindly laughed at by his friend Ben Johnson--will open its doors, scarred by centuries of naughty schoolboys, to mark 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death," said Paul Edmondson. 

Shakespeare bought the splendid New Place, the second best house in the town, when he had made his fortune on the London stage. "You don't buy a house like New Place and not live there," Paul said. He believes that after Shakespeare bought it, all his thinking time was spent there, and that the late plays, including The Tempest, were at least planned in his library and probably written there. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is being performed in Singapore?
2. What about in Brussels?
3. What country has Shakespeare's Globe not been to?
4. Why not?
5. What play are they performing on their tour?
6. Where was Shakespeare born?
7. When?
8. Where did he die?
9. Who claims him?
10. What is being celebrated?
11. Where does Paul Edmondson work?
12. Is in in charge of something?
13. Who does he compare Shakespeare to?
14. Where did he purchase property?
15. Where was he educated?
16. How much Latin did he learn?
17. What about Greek?
18. Where did he visit to think?
19. Did he own it?
Answer: 1. Macbeth
2. Romeo and Juliet
3. North Korea
4. He is a true Londoner.
5. Hamlet
6. Avon
7. 1564
8. Stratford-on-Avon, his birthplace
9. London
10. The anniversary of his death
11. The Globe
12. head of learning and research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
13. Dick Whittington
14. Stratford
15. Stratford
16. small
17. less than Latin
18. New Place
19. Yes.

A gramophone record (phonograph record in American English) or vinyl record, commonly known as a "record", is an analogue sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride (previously shellac) disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. Phonograph records are generally described by their diameter in inches (12", 10", 7"), the rotational speed in rpm at which they are played (16 2⁄3, 33 1⁄3, 45, 78), and their time capacity resulting from a combination of those parameters (LP – long playing 33 1⁄3 rpm, SP – 78 rpm single, EP – 12-inch single or extended play, 33 or 45 rpm); their reproductive quality or level of fidelity (high-fidelity, orthophonic, full-range, etc.), and the number of audio channels provided (mono, stereo, quad, etc.). 

The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century, replacing the phonograph cylinder record–with which it had co-existed from the late 1880s through to the 1920s–by the late 1920s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. From the 1990s to the 2010s, records continued to be manufactured and sold on a much smaller scale, and were especially used by disc jockeys (DJ)s, released by artists in some genres, and listened to by a niche market of audiophiles. The phonograph record has made a niche resurgence in the early 21st century – 9.2 million records were sold in the U.S. in 2014, a 260% increase since 2009. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Is "phonograph record" a British term?
2. What dialect is it from?
3. How many synonyms are there for what's often called just a "record" are there?
4. What are they?
5. Are these items digital?
6. Are they currently the most popular way to transmit music?
7. When did they stop being the most popular?
8. What was popular before?
9. When did the gramophone record become more popular than the cylinder?
10. And what replaced the gramophone record?
11. Are vinyl records fading away?
12. Who uses them today?
13. What's the nickname of that profession?
14. What kind of people like to hear music coming from records?
15. How many different ways of distinguishing types of records are there?
16. What are they?
17. How many sizes are there?
18. How many speeds?
19. How is the speed measured?
20. What material are they made from?
Answer: 1. No
2. American English
3. three
4. gramophone record, phonograph record and vinyl record
5. no
6. No
7. late in the 20th century
8. the phonograph cylinder record
9. the late 1920s
10. compact discs
11. No
12. disc jockeys
13. DJs
14. audiophiles
15. Five
16. diameter, speed, time capacity, reproductive quality and number of audio channels
17. three
18. four
19. in the rpm at which they are played
20. polyvinyl chloride

Joe and his friends wanted to join the school's Christmas show. He asked his friends at school what would be a good idea for the Christmas show. They came up with lots of ideas but had trouble choosing which idea to use. One person wanted to do a dance show. Another person wanted to put on a play. So Joe told everyone to write their idea down on a piece of paper. Then he took everyone's idea, put it into a hat, mixed them up, and picked one idea. He read the idea out loud to his friends. It said, "musical". So Joe and his friends were going to put on a musical. 

The first thing Joe did was give each of his friends a different job. Jane, Rick, and Peter would be the singers in the show. Max and Sam would set up the stage and the lights. Marsha and Tammy would make the costumes. Later, Joe wanted more singers so he added Sam and Marsha as singers. 

On the day of the school Christmas show, the school loved the musical and cheered for Joe and his friends when it ended. Joe and his friends celebrated by going out for ice cream. The ice cream shop was all out of Joe's favorite flavor, strawberry, so Joe chose to get chocolate ice cream instead. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who cheered for joe and his friends?
2. what did they want to join?
3. who sang?
4. how many people worked on it?
5. when did the school cheer?
6. how did they celebrate?
7. what his joe's favorite kind?
8. did he get it?
9. why not?
10. what did he choose?
11. how many ideas did they have?
12. what did they choose?
13. how?
14. what did joe do first?
15. how many jobs were there?
16. who made the outfits?
17. who did the lighting?
18. what else did they do?
Answer:
1. tthe school
2. the Christmas show.
3. Jane, Rick, and Peter
4. 10 with the 2 extras
5. On the day of the show
6. they went for icecream
7. strawberry,
8. no
9. the shop ran out
10. chocolate
11. Eight
12. a musical
13. they all wrote down their idea and Joe pulled one out of a hat
14. gave them all different jobs.
15. Three
16. . Marsha and Tammy
17. Max and Sam
18. set up the stage