Ascentis

ESOL Skills for Life

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Assessment
Centre
Centre Name
Name

achieved
Criteria
Tick if
1.1

1.2

1.3
Guide time: 60 minutes
1.4

2.1
Practice Paper A
ASESOLRE3/PPA (2) 3.1

4.1

Instructions Pass 14
 You must use a pen - black or blue ink. mark 21
 Dictionaries may not be used.
 There are 3 tasks to be completed. Answer all questions.
Mark

Date Task
Assessor IQA
Completed
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Task 1 Signature

Date

Name

Task 2 Signature

Date

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Task 3 Signature

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 Task 1 (Guide time 20 minutes)

Read the text and answer questions 1–7.

Starting a food business

This leaflet gives you the simple steps you need to start a food business.

Contact your local authority

Before opening your business get in touch with your local authority. They
will be able to help you with
 Registering your business
 Training and equipment
 Organising waste and recycling collection

You are responsible for all these areas of your business.

Register your business

You must register your premises with the Environmental Health Service in
your local area at least 28 days before opening – registration is free.

Draw up a checklist

Before you open your business, write a checklist to make sure you have
everything in place.

Resources

You may find the following leaflets useful:

 Starting Up: Your first steps to running a catering business

 ________________________________________________

 Food hygiene: a guide for businesses You can visit our website
http://www.food.gov.uk for
help with registering for VAT
or any other questions.

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 1 Who is the leaflet used for: Tick one box 

a Local authorities

b Catering trainers

c New businesses

d Waiters

2 What should you do four weeks before you open your business? Tick one box 

a Contact your local authority

b Write a checklist

c Buy all your equipment

d Register with the Environmental Health Service

3 A leaflet is missing from the list of resources. Which one is it? Tick one box 

a Cooking around the World

b Safer food, better business

c Safety on the road

d A family cookbook

4 Which word in the paragraph ‘Register your business’ means the same as ‘place of
business’?

____________________________________________________________

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 5 What is the main purpose of this text?
Tick one box 
a To advertise a food business

b To describe a catering business

c To give information about opening a business

d To explain about local authority services

6 If you open a food business, you must organise recycling and waste.
Tick one box 
True

False

7 Where would you find the name Cream Teas in an alphabetical directory of catering
companies? Tick one box 
a Before Choice Food

b Before Classic Caterers

c After Coffee Deluxe

d After Cute Cakes

Achieved  / X
Assessment
Question

Criteria

1 1.1

2 1.2

3 1.3

4 1.4

5 2.1

6 3.1

7 4.1

Total marks
/7

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 Task 2 (Guide time 20 minutes)

Read the text and answer questions 1–7.

Riki Carlo
Linton Rovers Junior Football Club
Bluebell Road
Linton
LN1 9DD

Mr Frank Lucas
Manager
Lucas Engineering Company
Wallend Lane
Linton
LN1 8HT

Dear Mr Lucas,

I am the manager of Linton Rovers, a junior football club for under 14 year olds based at
Linton Community Centre.

The club started five years ago and in that time we have had over 700 youngsters using
our training facilities, coming along to our training sessions or playing for the team. You
may also have heard of our popular football skills schools which we run throughout the
school holidays, when young people often have nothing to do.

We are looking for a sponsor in the coming season to help us with the cost of the
community centre and the football pitches. We hope that your company might be
interested.

In return for your sponsorship we would wear the Lucas logo on our club shirts. We would
also name you as our sponsor in the monthly newsletter.

I will contact you next week to see if you would like more information.

Yours sincerely,

Riki Carlo
R.Carlo
Manager
Linton Rovers Junior Football Club

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 1 Riki Carlo wrote to Frank Lucas because the football club needs:
Tick one box 
a a community centre

b football pitches

c club shirts

d money

2 What will Linton Football Club do to help Lucas Engineering?

Tick one box 
a Write a newsletter about the company

b Advertise the company

c Run football skills schools for the company

d Contact the company

3 In the second paragraph Riki Carlo writes about what the club:
Tick one box 
a hopes to do so

b has done

c can do

d is doing

4 What does the word ‘throughout’ mean in the text? Tick one box 

a during

b before

c after

d between

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 5 What is the main purpose of this text?
Tick one box 
a To make a request

b To give information

c To make a complaint

d To offer help

6 More than 700 young people have played for Linton Rovers Football team.
Tick one box 
True

False

7 Put the following in alphabetical order.

Sponsor Skills Shirts

i.

Achieved  / X
ii.
Assessment
Question

Criteria

iii.

1 1.1

2 1.2

3 1.3

4 1.4

5 2.1

6 3.1

7 4.1

Total Marks
/7

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 Task 3 (Guide time 20 minutes)
Read the text and answer questions 1 – 7.
Former Coronation Street site will go:
campaign to save site
Campaigners are fighting to
save the old Coronation
Street set in Manchester.
The Coronation Street set was
in use from 1982 until 2012,
when the TV soap moved to
Salford. They now film the
programme in a new set in
Salford and there are plans to
knock down the old set. They
are going to build flats, shops
and offices there.
Fans of the weekly drama have
started an online petition to
save the old street. They want
to retain the much-loved
Victorian terraced houses.
John Hughes, a big fan of the
serial, said, “People come from
all over the world to see the
houses in Coronation Street.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-
manchester-030769951
When you walk down the street
past the Corner Shop or go
inside the Rovers Return pub,
you’re having the amazing
experience of walking where all
the famous characters, such as
Ena Sharples and Jack
Duckworth, walked in the
drama. The actors who played
them are no longer in the
series.”
Sign this petition
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 1 This text is about plans to:
Tick one box 
a film a new TV drama

b knock down a famous TV set

c build new terraced houses

d move the drama to Salford

2 Put these events in the correct order.

Built the old set of Coronation 1

Filmed in the old set

Started a petition

Moved to the Salford set

3 Where do they plan to build the flats, shops and houses?

__________________________________________________________

4 The word ‘retain’ means:

Tick one box 
a keep

b repair

c buy

d replace

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 5 This text is:
Tick one box 

a a leaflet

b a newspaper article

c an advertisement

d a report

6 Ena Sharples is the name of a Coronation Street: Tick one box 

a fan

b actor

c location

d character

7 Below is a list of the surnames of people from Coronation Street. They are in
alphabetical order. Write the name Connor in the correct place on the list.

Achieved  / X
Assessment
People who have appeared in Coronation
Street
Question

Criteria
Carp

1 1.1

Charles
2 1.2

3 1.3
Cleaver
4 1.4

Cropper 5 2.1

6 3.1

7 4.1

END OF ASSESSMENT Total Marks

/7

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 Ofqual Accreditation Number
Ascentis Entry Level Certificate in ESOL Skills for Life (Entry 3) - 601/4081/1
Ascentis Entry Level Award in ESOL Skills for Life (Reading) (Entry 3) - 601/4271/6

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