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.

9 comments

• Linda says:
  

  The boy’s actions deserve praise for that one. Racist views must be eliminated, criticizing the voices, actions, and social media posts that support racism around the world.

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  The teenager cracked an egg on the senator’s head. He did this due to the senator’s racist tweet on Twitter. An NBA star supported this teenager’s action. Although I am not really into vigilante justice, sometimes it is good to see entitled politicians get the shame they deserve once in a while.

• Alberto says:
  

  Regardless of our ideas, nobody has the right to beat another person.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I could understand it without seeing the text and could fill in the blanks all words.

  Third, Dr.Firouz Naderi who’s an Iranian-American scientist that he retired from NASA in 2016 and currently is a management consultant, has said a wonderful sentence about the earth and the people who live here:

  When we look at the earth from the sky we don’t see any border among the countries, so why are there many challenges among the people of the earth!?

  (please, for more information about Dr.Nadri refer to Wikipedia).

  I believe in this subject that all of us belong to the earth regardless of our nationality, our religion, our race, our colour and so on.

  We can link up all races, religions and nationalities to one another by love and kindness.

  I’m so sorry to say this subject that some of the leaders of countries and politicians create some challenges among the races, religions and so on.

  Each of us should try for creating the love, the peace and the kindness among the countries, the religions, the races by using of the Internet and the social medias.

  I myself use Twitter and Facebook for this goal every day and send many love messages to all people around the world regardless of their countries, their religions, their races and so on.

  I have inspired of Cyrus the Great who was a kind Iranian king that freed Jewish kindly and created the first charter of Human Rights that’s in the British Museum now.

  I hope I can create an organisation for improving my goal on the Internet.

  Teacher Tara,
  Thank you for presenting this subject in this week’s lesson.

  Best wishes and have a great week in nice Canada,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Leonarda says:
  

  We help people fell strong knowing they are not alone .My country is the Earth. I am a citizen of the world which consists of only one race- the human race.

• Ana says:
  

  Thanks for sharing your wonderful work.
  I’m an English teacher who’s not always pleased with the resources in our course books. Therefore, I try to put my students’ brains to work with information about events which happened more recently.Finding up to date, relevant resources is quite difficult, and time is always short to make them yourself.

• rob cain says:
  

  is it ok to commit an act of violence against someone; ie smash an egg on their head, if I disagree with them?

• Foat says:
  

  This article is not correct. I thinking that the words of Senator Fraser Anning are taken out of context. Therefore, you must first read his message on Twitter in full. And only afterward make your own conclusions.
  And from this essay, I can make an unequivocal conclusion that Senator Fraser Anning does not agree with the IMMIGRATION policy of the government only. About racism not words.
  And the yellow shoes of Ben Simmons are only his self-promotion, which will not help anyone. Nimble boy …

• Mulyadi says:
  

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