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Thursday 31 July 2014

Commonwealth games

The commonwealth games  Dictogloss

The commonwealth games were made in 1930 in canada and they were also called the friendly games.

Then the 11 countries in our world sent 400 people to go and play 6 different sport. And 59 events at the commonwealth games.Since then the games were played every 4 years except 1942 and 1946 because of the second world war.



The games  have changed over the many years, even the name has changed. From 1930 to 1950 it was called the   British Empire Games. From 1954-1966 it was called the British  Empire and Commonwealth games.IN 1970-1974 the games were called  British commonwealth games.Finally in 1978 canada Edmonton, multi sport event  changed the name to commonwealth games.

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  1. Nice listening to the information about the Commonwealth games and putting it into your own words Damien.

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