Commonwealth Day

THE HISTORY OF AN EMPIRE 

Britain and the world celebrate Commonwealth-Day on March 12th 2012

Commonwealth of Nations, an association of the British Empire´s ex-colonies, 54 countries.

 This day is not a public holiday, neither in Britain nor in any of the other 54 member nations.

But there is a display of the Queen´s flag, the Union Jack on public buildings around the world.

 At Westminster Abbey, the Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech which is broadcast  all over the world.She is not only Queen of England and the United Kingdom but she is also Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada,Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands,Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Betize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. These 16 countries are called the Commonwealth Realms ( a country which has The Queen as its Monarch).

Watch this video: The Commonwealth Family

Go to these links:

1.  To practise geography
2.  Read the Secretary-General´s message for 12 March 2012
3. The Queen and the Commonwealth, the official web.

See Speak Up in class with exercises on CD