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1.For India and Belize the answer is 30°C, and for Australia the answer is 6 °C.

What is the question?

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2. The Commonwealth countries with the lowest percentage of their population under the age of 15 are Malta and Canada at 17 %. The highest percentage across the Commonwealth is 49%.

Which country is this for? a)United Kingdomb)Singaporec)Ugandad)Malaysia

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3. Papua New Guinea is the Commonwealth country with the highest number of these (820), and St. Vincent and The Grenadines, the Maldives, St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda have the fewest (just 1).

What is it? a)Doctors per 1000 populationb)Languages in usec)High speed rail linesd)Religions practised

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5. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa were some of the first countries to do this in 1931. One of the most recent countries to do this was Rwanda in 2009.

What did they do?

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4.Pakistan has the highest point in the Commonwealth at 8,611m. Tuvalu has the lowest high point of any Commonwealth country.

How many metres above sea level is that?

a)0b)20c)5d)-3

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1) Did you reach consensus in your group?2) Why/why not?3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of

making decisions like this?4) To what extent do you think the diversity of the

Commonwealth might make reaching consensus easier or more difficult?

5) What are the necessary qualities a person needs in order to work well with others? Which ones do you have? Which do you need to improve on?

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