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Public Games: In the way of practical help, suggest public games that could be played at home (e.g. word bingo or a cloze game where children fill in missing words or phrases), explaining the particular value of public games to a child with reading problems -namely that they're fun and so don't seem too much like hard work, and also that they have a useful repetitive, reinforcing function. When you recommend a game, try to explain just how it is designed to help. There are booklets and pamphlets available, which give ideas for public games that can easily be made and played at home (e.g. Hip Pocket Spelling public games series, New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).
The Commonwealth public games are open to member nations of the British Commmonwealth. Originally called the Empire public games until 1970, they were first held in Canada in 1930. They are nicknamed 'the Friendly public games'.Whilst representing Canada Lennox Lewis,
subsequently WBC world heavyweight champion, won the super-heavyweight boxing gold medal in 1986 at Edinburgh.
The public games included chariot and horse races in a hippodrome, foot races in a stadium, athletic contests in a gymnasium, musical, dramatic, and literary competitions in a theater; works of painting and sculpture also were exhibited. Prizes of laurel wreaths and palm branches generally were awarded to the victors, who also were allowed to have their statues erected in the plain. Though prohibited by legislation in 394 A.D., the public games appear to have survived as late as 424 A.D. (our last certain reference). Almost 30 minor Pythian public games were celebrated in other parts of the Greek world.
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