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.

5 comments

• Peter Souza says:
  

  Dear Sir
  I am writing this email to thank you for help me learn about the Seattle Airport Worker Steals and Crashes Plane.
  The theme was about an airline worker at an international airport in Seattle that pick up a commercial aircraft and fell over into an island.
  The crash happened after the employee did stunts while flying over a highly populated area. It is unknown whether the crash was intentional or acidental.
  Sincerely,
  Peter Souza

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, thank you for this week’s news report because you have presented another subject with new words for us.

  Second, I could understand the subject without seeing the text and could fill in the blanks all the words except the word populated ( I heard it the word popular).

  Third, I feel you have spoken the audio news a bit faster than the last week, but my ears are becoming match with your voice because I’m your learner for nearly one year and 7 months.

  I said this subject because your new learners know it takes so many times that they can understand you easily.

  Thus they shouldn’t be hopeless and should try to listen to your audio news reports several times every day.

  Fourth, I’m surprised how could the worker steal the commercial aircraft easily?

  I myself have seen there are many hard rules in the airports that even the workers cannot accesses to the aircrafts easily.

  Finally, I agree with Alberto about this subject that the airlines should have more control over their aircrafts when they are in the airports.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thanks for choosing the audio news reports from different subjects that help us to learn new words.

  Best wishes and have an excellent week in nice Canada,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Mukesh joshi says:
  

  It’s very nice for English learner I am understanding the news but now can’t fill in the blank but one day I will do best

• Alberto says:
  

  Airlines should have more control over their aircrafts when they are in the airports. In addition, workers should pass more exhaustive tests in order to work close to planes.

• Norbert says:
  

  C’est scandaleux