Functional Skills English Reading Level 1 Family History - SAMPLE PAPER Assessment Task Sheet Functional Skills English Reading Assessment Level 1 Learner name ___________________________
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Instructions to learners Check that you have the correct paper. Please complete the information above. Use black or blue ink. Do not use a pencil. There are 11 questions in this assessment. You may use a dictionary. Total marks available: 23 You should try to answer ALL the questions. You have one hour to finish the assessment.
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Functional Skills English Reading Level 1 Family History - SAMPLE PAPER Assessment Task Sheet
Document One
First steps in researching your family history Here is a helpful guide to starting your family research. You can also get the ‘Getting Started’ pack from the General Register Office. This is a full introduction to family history research and how to use birth, marriage and death certificates to build your family tree. All you need to get started is your birth certificate. Use government records for your family research Starting with yourself, write down all the dates and events you know about in your family and work back carefully. Collect any certificates you can find, such as birth certificates, which will give you important information to help you continue your research e.g. mother’s surname before she married. Download the Family Tree Chart from the General Register Office to help record your family information Talk to relatives Ask members of your family for their memories and make notes of what each person says. Ask those relatives who can remember most to go over their memories more than once. Nobody can remember everything of use in one sitting. Look in your attic and ask your elderly relatives if you can look in theirs. Ask elderly relatives to identify people in old family photographs – ask them to write names on the back. Show your findings to elderly relatives, as they may jog a series of fresh memories. Get help and advice You may want to join a local family history group where you can share your experiences and get help with any problems you come across. You could enroll in a family history course. Many adult education centers run these courses and they are not expensive and very helpful.
Adapted from www.direct.gov.uk
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Task 1 Answer the following questions: 1. What is the purpose of Document One? (1 mark) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
2. Using the information from Document One, what are the advantages of asking elderly relatives for help in researching family history? (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Identify ways in which the writer of Document One makes the text easy to read. (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
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Functional Skills English Reading Level 1 Family History - SAMPLE PAPER Assessment Task Sheet 4. According to Document One, what piece of information could you use to start your research? Tick the correct answer A Death certificate B Marriage certificate C Identity certificate D Birth certificate
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5. From Document One, name one item you can get from the General Register Office and state how it may help you research your family history. (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 6. According to Document One there are many ways to research your family history. Chose two ways you think would be the most helpful and explain why. (4 marks) Which method of Research
Reason why
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Task 2 Document Two
This is a brief guide to researching census records. Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online, so you can search for the records from home. Many Irish records have been lost or destroyed - the 1901 census is the earliest and most complete census of Ireland that survives. What do I need to know before I start?
Try to find out:
the name of the person you are looking for
their approximate date of birth
where the person was born or lived
What records can I see online?
Census records for England and Wales (1841-1911)
Did you know? A census of the population of England and Wales has been taken every ten years since 1801 except in 1941. The 1841 census was the first to list the names of every person. Earlier censuses between 1801 and 1831 only recorded the number of people in each area.
From January 2009, most of the information from the 1911 census has been put onto the internet, some of the most sensitive data was not made available until 2012. From 1851onwards, every person's relationship to the head of the household was recorded. For example; the head of the household was more often than not male so Gemma Grey would be listed as ‘wife to Thomas Gray’, Lucy Gray would be listed as ‘daughter to Thomas Gray’. Due to rounding down and human error, some details, such as age, may vary between censuses. Censuses started in Ireland in 1821 and in Scotland in 1841. Adapted from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Page 5 of 8
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Task 2 7. Using the details in Document Two identify two pieces of information that can be found from the census after 1831. (4 marks) Census Date
What information is available?
8. Name two groups of people who may be interested in reading Document Two. Give reasons from the text to support your ideas. (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
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Functional Skills English Reading Level 1 Family History - SAMPLE PAPER Assessment Task Sheet 9. How often is the general census taken? Tick the correct answer A Every 12 years B Every 10 years C Every 20 years D Every 25 years
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10. According to Document Two, why would some details on the censuses be different? (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
11. Are there any opinions in Document Two? Explain your answer. (2 marks) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________
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End of Assessment
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