It started to rain so the grandpa and his grandson went home
First, what you will need know is that the romans stayed in England for about 400 years
It is about the history of English
Cool! I've got a test on the history of England tomorrow
Can I get changed, I'm quite wet
Wow! It's so interesting!
Then the vikings invaded England, they terrified the English, they brought some Old Norse to England and we still have some of their words now like cake and blunder! Then the Normans invaded them. The Normans were a group of people who decended from the Norwegian Vikings; well when the Normans invaded, they took a bit a bit of French to England like soup and sauce.
Ok, here you are, let me start my story. So after the romans left England, the germanic tribes invaded them, well actually England was not invaded, the germanic tribes came gradually to England and actually displaced the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants.
The grandson needs to go home now, he has asked for another story on the dialects and accents
Oh, wow I didn't know before that Romeo and Juliet (my favourate book) had been written by Shakespeare, does he still exist?
Then there was Shakespeare, he was a very famous writer, he wrote 38 plays. One of them is Romeo and Juliet!
No he doesn't know, he died in 1616, which is quite a long time ago, and he was born in 1564, he actually died on his birthday!