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.

7 comments

• Bijan says:
  

  Dear EnglishClub and Dear Teacher Tara!!!!!

  First, I have been on English Club for several years and today I saw two nice words for the first time:

  “Dear EnglishClub”, that has been written by Galo Mejia.

  Thus I decided to write the above beautiful words + Dear Teacher Tara in the beginning of my comment.

  My reasons:

  1. If I can write English language easily now, it’s because of English Club.

  2. If I can listen to the news easier than before, it’s because of Tara.

  So I agree with my dear friend Galo 100% that has been used “Dear” for the website.

  Second, I could understand the audio news report easily without seeing the text and also could fill in the blanks all words except the words ” journalist” and “risk”.

  Third, it’s so interesting to me that Times magazine has chosen a deceased person as person of the year for the first time in history.

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

• Galo Mejía says:
  

  Dear EnglishClub,

  I am very grateful for having the opportunity to count you as one my resources for learning and teaching English. In fact i just had to write a paper about the use of the new technologies to teach ESL and I mentioned you as one of my references.
  Thank you very much.

• Madhab Chaudhary says:
  

  It’s very useful for a teacher.

• Marie-Danielle O’Reilly says:
  

  That’s the best place to learn a new language.
  Everything is here : learning new words, reading and listening and the strong part is you get the corrections in one second.
  You also get to learn the written part by copying the text.
  Thank you so much , Tara

• Paty B says:
  

  Thank you Tara
  Your lessons are clear, current, interesting and I can learn in many ways for that.

• Walter says:
  

  Best place I ever experienced to learn English

• k.cunnane says:
  

  This is one of the best sites I’ve experienced for beginner listeners in high school. The news is current, the vocab. relevant, and the extra lessons essential. I would like to be able to use this site.