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.

15 comments

• Antoniel Bleck says:
  

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• Galo Mejia says:
  

  Such a tragic story. Very sad.

• Alberto says:
  

  I suppose that journalists must be fast in order to be the first publishing the news. Because of this, sometimes they could make mistakes.

• Tara Benwell says:
  

  True! I will try to share some good news this month!

• AFEXI Rodrigue says:
  

  Please. What is the answer of the first fill-gap? Thank you.

• Raja says:
  

  Pronounciation is a problem of this audio

• HuairenZhang says:
  

  It is a nice material for practice learning. I found myself can understand most of the content. But there is a little error on my spelling. I hope I could get more progress under the help of this website. Best wishes for the program.

• Mameri says:
  

  Hi, This is my first visit to the site, really i’m happy to do it, but i’m worried about the news.
  Mameri.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, thank you for the first audio news report of the New Year 2019.

  Second, I think your speaking ‘s speed is a bit faster than the last week, but could understand the subject without seeing the text and could fill in the blanks all words except the word survivors.

  Third, I’m sorry to hear the bad news and it looks like it’s usual to hear the bad news in our world every day.

  I myself am so romantic and love to hear the good news, but what can I do when we live in a world that is full of wars?

  I can only post messages of Love, Peace and Kindness on social networks that, maybe, the leaders of countries and politicians read them and try for making peace in the world.

  It looks like when we ( people) aren’t kind with each other, these bad events increase in our world.

  Fourth, I like the opinion of Hanuman too because, maybe, Hanuman’s soul is tired of the bad news.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thank you so much for publishing the audio news reports, even if they are the bad news because they are part of the facts of our world and we should hear them.

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

• Alexandre Coelho says:
  

  In this text one of the interesting thing is the use of terms “likely” and “unlikely”, common in everyday English conversation.

• imi says:
  

  It’s very amazing we see a very young infant or a very old person be alive in this kind of situation but we see or hear on mass media that a very young and strong person death in a very trivial occurrences.
  How can we explain these?

• Patricia says:
  

  Thank you very much, it’s my first time to learn with you and i am happy of having learned more words to improve my vocabulary.

• Rara satri says:
  

  I’m so thankful and grateful today. learning English in here, when I confused about my score. I don’t know, what I must to do. And I found many ways to help my problem. In here, I feel complete and happy to learn more.

• bella says:
  

  It in my first time to learn english on this web,Ithink is a good way to improve my english …

• Hanuman says:
  

  We do love your News resource for our English learners but sometimes our students find it a bit heavy and depressing^^ Isn’t there any good news in the world? Like they have at goodnewsnetwork.org for example 😉