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.

10 comments

• Ibrahim says:
  

  I really got appreciated of the short exciting and convincing story. About the artificial moon I think its very idear, I hope they will launch it within the specified period of time. Thanks.

• Galo Mejía says:
  

  Dear all:

  In my opinion, this idea of launching an artificial moon is absolutely outrageous. I believe God’s creation is perfect and does not need to get altered by the human hands. What we need to focus on is in taking care of what we already have and be more responsible for the damage we cause to the environment.

  Thanks

• David Martín - Spain says:
  

  It depends on the astronomers explanations, they are the technician, so I also think the launch will depends on those reports.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hello everybody,

  Sorry.

  I couldn’t understand the meaning of “dusk-like glow”.
  I know the meaning of the words dusk and glow, but why is there a hyphen here and what does it want to say?

  Thanks in advance for helping me,

• sangphan says:
  

  Hi everybody,

  As some of you said, this audio news report is shorter and much easier than the one last week. And I could fill out the text with all the correct words except for one word “cities”, I wrote “city” in singuliar.
  I guess that China’s planning to launch an artificial moon over Changdu replacing streetlights is a very interesting new idea to save fossil energy. This is likely to set a good example for all of the countries around the world.

  Best regards.

• Wendy Garcia-rivas says:
  

  like

• Bijan says:
  

  Greetings to my dear Teacher Tara,

  I don’t know how to tell you thanks so much.
  This audio news report is so easier than the last week.

  Thank you Teacher Tara for studying the comments of your learners carefully. I know you do the best for your learners that they can improve their listening in the best way.

  I’m so happy to tell you I could fill in the blanks all the words correctly.

  In addition, this audio news report is shorter than the other your lessons.
  I think that if they will be short, the learners can learn them easier and faster.

  We have a proverb in Farsi language that says:

  If the teacher’s lesson be a kindness lesson, it can come to the class all students on holidays.

  I believe your lessons are kindness lessons and because of this I come to your lessons nearly every day (even on holidays).

  I think that the most of your students are in intermediate or upper-intermediate level and ,maybe, you have a few learners who are in advanced level.

  Finally, I’m surprised why haven’t the US had any action in this subject and China is only working on this plan?

  Best wishes and have an excellent weekend,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• shamsy says:
  

  apparently, it is a good plan for saving energy, but the disadvantages and losses of it may be known after many years.
  thank you Tara

• imi says:
  

  The most vital subject in this issue is that this form of scientific plan doesn’t interrupt animals routine life and another important issue is saving fossil energy so it’s good for environment.I hope they will be able to launch it as soon as possible.
  Although, this scientific listening subject is very short but i appreciate for it.

• Hojin Jeong says:
  

  I think that the idea is very good in order to replace streetlights if we can make it low cost than the streetlights.