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.

5 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  Paris is cracking down on the misuse of scooters. Users like to park their scooters on doorways, and not only that, they even like to overspeed while riding them. Electric scooters have become famous as a part of the go-green movement. By using electric vehicles, people are said to be involved in saving nature. It is a good cause for sure, if only there were regulations for this mode of transportation on the road.

• eo says:
  

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• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  Wow!
  This audio news report is so difficult for me, so I could not understand it without seeing the text. May be, it’s because of a new subject that I had never heard about it before.

  Of course, you have spoken the words clearly and slowly.
  In addition, I could fill in the blanks the words “sidewalk” and “currently”.

  In any way, thank you so much for this week’s audio news report.

  Finally, it’s so interesting for me to use Electric Scooter in Paris, but I believe it can cause many problems there unless Police creates new regulations in this subject.

  Thanks again and best wishes.

  Bijan
  from the Persian Gulf

• renjit thomas says:
  

  In my country India people start using scooters at a very age. They are literally more scooters than all the vehicles put together. I believe many of the accidents that occur because of rash driving of scooters Renjit thomas

• Marie-Danielle O’Reilly says:
  

  They are all over the place . When you drive your car, you have to be so careful because they show up from anywhere. In my country which is Switzerland, we have the same problem.
  Young people dance with their electric scooters. Sometimes on the road between cars and also on the sidewalks.
  It’s cheaper than a car. They go to school with them with all their books on their shoulders.
  Very scary!
  Thank you , Tara
  Love from Switzerland 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭