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.

8 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  The report is from Nepal. The ban applies in January. The Nepalese government is also considering raising the permit cost of climbing Mount Everest. Plastic straws are also single-use plastics that should be banned. I believe that within the next four years, at least 80% of countries’ capital cities will have implemented the same idea.

• Prak says:
  

  Hi Tara

  This news more interesting and Thanks for the Nepal Government to taken initiative to ban plastic usage.We are all admiring to this policy.

  I will suggest all the countries need to be adopt this policy and reduce the global environmental effects.
  Nowadays plastic is quite common in all human day to day activities, like business ( cargo ), food & beverages packing, water bottle, etc…

  Hence i am requesting all the counties needs to adopt this policy and save the environment for our future generation.

  Thanks
  Pra

• ss says:
  

  Its very good

• Miren says:
  

  I appreciate a lot your week’s audio.
  Thank you Tara.

• leann says:
  

  no

• Tin Moe says:
  

  Dear Teacher Tara,
  Your lessons about news around the world are very useful to English learners like me.
  I always listen to your lessons and sometimes use in my teaching as I am also teaching English to young learners.
  Your lessons are very useful in teaching English because the news are updated and give the information short to the point.
  Adding to this, your style of reading the news is very easy to understand that helps learners really well to get their confidence in studying English as a second language.
  I admire your benevolent effort for English learners around the world.

  Keep up your GREAT WORK!

  Wishing you all the best in your life.

  Tin Moe

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, thank you for this week’s audio news report.

  Seocond, it’s so easy for me and could understand it very well without seeing the text and also could fill in the blanks all words except the word “visitors”. I heard it “residers”.

  Second, I myself always am so sensitive to the plastics because one doctor said on TV that when the plastics came to our life, many diseases were created.

  It’s a wonderful idea that Nepal ban single-use plastic around Everest, but why only around Everest and not everywhere that attracts tourists?

  I wish all countries created the rules that banned the plastics in people’s everyday life.

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

• praveen kumar says:
  

  it’s very usefull for me