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.

13 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  Joy Milne has a keen ability to smell and detect Parkinson’s disease in people. Milne first became aware of her ability before her husband was diagnosed with the illness. Researchers hope that Milne’s ability can also be useful for detecting tuberculosis. It is really rare to find people with that ability. There might be many people with that ability out there, but they are just not aware of it. My senses are just so-so, nothing extraordinary.

• David Wisner says:
  

  I stopped most of my Parkinson’s disease medications due to severe side effects and I started on herbal treatments from Natural Herbs Centre (naturalherbscentre the treatment has made a very huge difference for me. My symptoms including body weakness and Swallowing difficulties disappeared after few months on the treatment. I am getting active again since starting this treatment.

• Ahmed Latif says:
  

  I was diagnosed in UK 2013. i was diagnosed with the bulbar form of Parkinson’s disease(PD) and was given one year to live. My symptoms progressed quickly. Soon i was having difficulty standing, swallowing and even walking short distances. With the help of Multivitamin herbal Care I have been able to reverse my symptoms using diet, herbs, which i feel has made the most difference. The PD natural formula immensely helped my condition, it reversed my Parkinson. my slurred speech. And then the inability to eat without getting choked, breathing, and coughing. gradually disappeared. Visit MULTIVITAMIN HERBAL CARE via their official website multivitamincare. org I’m now playing golf again. and i turned 72 today. i am glad to get my life back DON’T GIVE UP HOPE!!!

• Bonnie Chismar says:
  

  My husband who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease for 2 years at the age of 63 had all his symptoms reversed with Ayurveda medicine from natural herbs centre . com after undergoing their Parkinson’s natural protocol. God Bless all Parkinson’s Caregivers. Stay Strong, take small moments throughout the day to thank yourself, to love your self, and pray to whatever faith, star, spiritual force you believe in and ask for strength. I can personally vouch for these remedy but you would probably need to decide what works best for you.

• shruthi bhavan says:
  

  Hi tara, you have a good job.It is very good practising for listening skills.

• shruthi bhavan says:
  

  It is very good practising for listening skills.

• Marsal says:
  

  Hi Tara, great! Believe, Im getting well informed as student, as citizen.
  I’m Mozambican so, sometimes I have to repeat many times to understand, cause my oficial language is Portuguese, but I’m practicing a vocabulary and phonetic.

• Rose OUEDRAOGO says:
  

  like

• JOEL VILLAVICENCIO GASTELU says:
  

  I found the audio very informative and clear. Thanks a lot!.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  WOW!
  It’s so difficult and also so long.

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

  Second, I understood that the audio news report is about Parkinson’s disease, but couldn’t understand the subject well at all.

  In addition, I could fill in the blanks the words “claims” and “diagnosed”.

  Because of not understanding the subject well, I can’t present my opinion about it.

  Thank you and best wishes,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Saeed says:
  

  Really nice practice listining with new vocabs. I appreciate you

• Ameen says:
  

  Hi Tara
  Thank you very much
  I have practice english
  With you

• GENADY says:
  

  Hi Tara.
  Thanks for podcast,but it’s hard for me.
  Is it easy English?