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The Induction Task

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Introduction – part 1 of the induction task was to find two people over the age of 65, this will be my grandfather Arthur Badman and my other grandfather Brian Trodd. I did this because I already knew they had very different lives growing up. I have designed six questions for each of them, family size, what they did in the leisure time/to relax, what types of education they had, at what age did they get their first job, what they wore throughout their teenage years and finally what is their most memorable job.
I started by calling Brian, I asked him first how many siblings he had and it was him and his sister May and both parents. In his leisure time he stated that as a young child he enjoyed playing with his older sister and he really …show more content…

I then proceeded to call my other grandfather, Arthur and started by asking him how large his family was as a young child. He had 5 brothers and was the youngest and lived with his parents in Enfield.
As a child him and his brothers would play football across the road (unlike my other grandfather Brian that hates football) or they would mess around in the family owned pub, and as they all grew up they became interested in cricket and joined the local club, however he states as a child in the blitz you had to be home early for early tea so they all had cheap bikes and a leather football and you could adventure and climb almost everything.
I started asking my grandfather about his education and he did primary school but at the age of 15 he joined building school where he became proficient in carpentry, masonry, plastering, brick laying and many other things.
My grandads first job was working in the family pub, behind the bar or getting orders in the evening, he did this at a very young age he states at 9 or 10 onwards, he also said this was purely because there was nothing else to do so he offered to help when he was bored and got paid a little bit every now and again.
In his teenage years (during the war) he says general fashion I suppose was peaked caps or fedora esque hats, cotton jumpers, leather shoes and long socks were generally worn by children his age, but he normally wore anything he was given, which

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