Listen to News with Tara Benwell - Instructions:
1. Preview the vocabulary and read the gapfill text.
2. Play the news report and try to fill in the blanks.
3. Answer the comprehension questions by writing full sentences.
4. Use the discussion question to write an essay or discuss the story with other students.
5. Click "show Answers" to see the full text.
6. Pretend to be a news anchor by reading each story out loud.

19 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  As long as the project and practice are well-controlled, I don’t mind it. This actually can be a good idea to reduce the risk of death for mothers during pregnancy or childbirth.

• soliana okubay says:
  

  First of all thanks for exercise. After that I learn a lot of words. Thanks for your time teacher Tara.

• Jinxin Li says:
  

  All good!

• Hayder says:
  

  Dear tara,
  your articles is brilliant , you teach us new information besides the language lesson.
  thanks a lot

• micky says:
  

  thank you Tara for sharing this news for us. It’s very helpful for me to brush up my English.

• patricia says:
  

  Thank you Tara.
  All your articles are very interesting and help me a lot in a funny way to improve my english.
  About the research I think is a fantastic idea, and they won’t have problems about ethic.

• Sohail says:
  

  I feel it is very help full for whom they want learn english on starting phase.
  thanks.

• Waleed says:
  

  that is very good, thanks alot

• Juan says:
  

  I think It must have been a multidisciplinary development. Thank you for your work, it is the firs time I participate and I like the system.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, thank you for this new subject of audio news report.

  Second, I could understand that the subject is about the babies, but because of hearing the word “room” instead of the “womb”, I was incorrect about understanding the lesson completely and also answering comprehension questions (without seeing the text).

  I only answered the question one, but could fill in the blanks all words.

  Third, we always hear more new news about improving medical science that are so wonderful.

  WOW!
  Is it possible the artificial womb?
  Yes.

  So, it’s not surprised that one day, we hear about an artificial woman too.

  Teacher Tara,
  Thank you and best wishes,
  Bijan
  from the Persian Gulf

• SHERIF ABD EL AZIZ says:
  

  This is great an invention in the history of science , i like ant invention help human especially children .

• Alexey says:
  

  This is a real challenge to create that womb because all babies are different.

• GLON says:
  

  this article gives us informations at the top of the news
  Congratulations
  I hope to listen to you next Wednesday

• Ariana Vieira says:
  

  Dear Tara, you won’t imagine how richest you make my classes going. I can understand better, improving my English and also have articles that are so brend new related with world’s facts. Thanks a lot.

• Vera says:
  

  Thank you so much for the activity!

• TENGUIA says:
  

  Just say thank you for this exercise

• Miren says:
  

  Thank you Tara. Your weekly listenings help me to learn a lot of new words and I understand without reading the more and more.
  The topics are very interesting.

• Zhenya says:
  

  This helped me to learn some words’ meanings and the topic was very interesting. Doing the exercise, the newly learned words are getting stuck.
  Thank you !!!

• Celeste says:
  

  Nice exercise to practice….thanks so much!!