1. Mary: So you work for an organisation called LASSN, can you tell me what, what that is, what, what it does?

2. Gerard: Well, LASSN stands for Leeds Asylum [1] a) fund b) project c) Seekers Support Network, and [2] a) basically b) women c) refugees d) teach we try to support asylum [3] a) charity b) projects c) project d) seekers and [4] a) refugees b) seekers c) women in their lives in trying to adapt to living in British society. And we do this in four ways [5] a) basically b) charity c) project d) seekers .

3. We provide a befriending service for asylum [6] a) basically b) project c) seekers and [7] a) basically b) charity c) refugees who need help, perhaps to talk to somebody or maybe to help them with [8] a) access b) refugees c) teach to doctors or something like that.

4. Mary: Okay, befriending.

5. Gerard: Befriending. Then we have an English at Home [9] a) access b) people c) project which places volunteer English teachers in their home to [10] a) basically b) seekers c) teach d) thank them English.

6. Mary: Hmm hmm, okay.

7. Gerard: And then we have a ... a coordinator who looks after refugee organisations, who helps them to set up a committee.

8. Mary: How interesting.

9. Gerard: ...and get [11] a) access b) fund c) seekers d) self funding to, to set up services.

10. Mary: So that's a [12] a) fund b) refugees c) self d) teach help group.

11. Gerard: [13] a) access b) people c) seekers d) self help groups, exactly, yes, we have one at the moment with Afghan community organisation which wants to set up a Saturday, sort of club where they [14] a) seekers b) teach c) voluntarily Farsi to their children and things like that in.

12. Then the third one is for, [15] a) charity b) mainly c) project d) voluntarily for helping asylum [16] a) people b) charity c) fund d) seekers who can't [17] a) access b) refugees c) seekers d) teach accommodation, maybe at the end of their process and they've been refused and they're thrown out of their accommodation, and it's called the Short Stop program, where people give a room in their house for up to six days to ... on, on a short term basis to give, to give accommodation and breakfast to, to asylum [18] a) basically b) seekers c) voluntarily who are either destitute or [19] a) refugees b) smiling who've come to the end of their process and can't find anywhere to live.

13. Mary: Okay, so there's the befriending?

14. Gerard: Yes.

15. Mary: There's the English at Home?

16. Gerard: Home.

17. Mary: This helping, supporting the, the self-help groups.

18. Gerard: Yes, yes.

19. Mary: ...in getting off the ground and.

20. Gerard: That's right.

21. Mary: ...Short Stop.

22. Gerard: Short Stop.

23. Mary: ...for housing for like [20] a) emergency b) refugees c) seekers things.

24. Gerard: Housing, that's right, yes, housing, [21] a) access b) basically c) emergency d) project , yes.

25. Mary: ...okay, [22] a) fund b) refugees c) seekers d) thank you. So what within that do you do, what's your role?

26. Gerard: My job is to coordinate the English at Home program.

27. Mary: Oh right, okay.

28. Gerard: And [23] a) access b) basically c) mainly d) project I work full time from nine till five thirty, and I come in and I interview new tutors. We train them and then we place them in homes of [24] a) fund b) refugees c) seekers d) teach and asylum [25] a) project b) refugees c) seekers who need English teaching. They are mainly ... 90% of these students are women with small babies who can't attend classes at, at college.

29. Mary: Okay, but how is your organisation, LASSN, how is it funded? How, how is the money obtained to pay for it?

30. Gerard: Okay, the money that is obtained pays for the full time or part time staff that work in the office, the coordinators, the office manager and the, the [26] a) access b) charity c) project manager. And the money has come, up till now, mostly from the Lottery, but until the 1st of April, my [27] a) access b) project c) refugees , the English at Home [28] a) access b) project c) thank d) voluntarily , was mostly funded by the Learning and Skills Council and Rowntrees Furnishing ... Rowntrees, can't remember.

31. Mary: Well that's a [29] a) charity b) seekers c) teach d) voluntarily isn't it.

32. Gerard: The [30] a) charity b) project c) seekers d) voluntarily , that's what I wanted, Rowntrees [31] a) charity b) seekers c) self d) teach

33. Mary: It has money it gives to certain organisations.

34. Gerard: Yes to different organisations. But, from the 1st of April it has changed somewhat and we get.my [32] a) basically b) project c) teach gets most ... all its money from the Lottery [33] a) access b) fund , the Lottery Fund.

35. Mary: From the Lottery

36. Gerard: ...yes they call them Big Lottery [34] a) charity b) fund c) refugees d) self now, previously it was called the Community [35] a) fund b) project c) seekers d) thank , but now it's the Big Lottery.

37. Mary: So you had to apply for that?

38. Gerard: Oh we have to apply for that and we have to fill in application forms, talk about the [36] a) charity b) project c) refugees d) seekers , say how successful it's been and then, then they, they decide what they'll give you for it.

39. Mary: Then they decide. But your teachers, the people that go to peoples' homes.

40. Gerard: Yes.

41. Mary: ...for teaching English, those are all volunteers?

42. Gerard: They're all [37] a) fund b) refugees c) seekers d) volunteers , they are not paid. They are paid their expenses, bus.

43. Mary: Right, such as?

44. Gerard: Bus or ...

45. Mary: Bus travel?

46. Gerard: Bus travel or car, we give them a mileage. And if they have to buy extra resources like tapes, or dictionaries, then we pay them for those, those things.

47. Mary: Right, right, right, but they're not paid for their time.

48. Gerard: They're not paid for their time, they do it [38] a) fund b) seekers c) voluntarily d) volunteers , yes. It's a very good program because ... effective program, because ... because teachers are not paid, they do it [39] a) volunteers b) smiling c) teach d) voluntarily because they want to help asylum [40] a) people b) fund c) refugees d) seekers and, and [41] a) basically b) project c) people d) refugees . And, they know what they're getting out of it and, and ...

49. Mary: So they get a lot from doing it and.

50. Gerard: They get a lot from doing it, yes. yes. And eventually some of them will go abroad to [42] a) improving b) refugees c) self d) teach English or some other place in Britain. And quite a lot them have asked me for a reference for them, and I will give them it, for, for a job, you see and they, they appreciated that. Yes, yes.

51. Mary: Okay, [43] a) fund b) refugees c) seekers d) thank you.

52. Gerard: So that's, that's ... is it okay.

53. Mary: Okay.