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

• shamsy says:
  

  I really enjoyed this reading.to a better world

• dr.salwa kotb says:
  

  we can make the world a better place by fixed ourseleves ,
  for examples:
  we should love each other ,stopped heat towards the others ,helping people ,spread values about accept the others without consideration the religen or believe or color

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I could understand the audio news without seeing the text in the first step and could fill in the blanks all the words except the word “inequalities”.

  Third, I feel you have spoken a bit faster than the last week because your speaking’s speed is a little fast.

  Fourth, I myself know Nelson Mandela as a symbol of freedom and love to human rights.

  I wish all of us could act like Nelson Mandela because he went to the prison for many years for showing his beliefs to freedom and democracy.

  He is the most beautiful symbol of human rights and democracy in this era that we live.

  Nelson Mandela acted what he said and spent all his life for his goals that he believed, but some of us only talk about freedom and human rights without acting.

  Now, I have a few questions from the ex-president of the US Barak Obama:

  1. What did you do for democracy and human rights during eight years of his presidency?

  Maybe, you could end the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and in general in the Middle East and other places of the world.

  Maybe, you could change the acts of many leaders of countries who act against democracy and human rights, but you didn’t do so.

  As I know the campaign slogan of the ex-president of the US before choosing as the president was:
  CHANGE.

  2. Could you do the above slogan in area of democracy and human rights?

  Many people of countries expected Obama would act for improving the democracy and human rights around the world, but he didn’t do it (my opinion).

  3. Could you improve Nelson Mandela’s goals for democracy and human rights around the world?

  Some of us have only used to say beautiful words while we don’t do them in our life, but Nelson Mandela acted what he said.

  Nelson Mandela is my love and my symbol for democracy and freedom because he didn’t say the beautiful words, he acted what he said.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thank you so much for telling us about the symbol of freedom “Nelson Mandela”.

  Best wishes and have an excellent week in beautiful Canada,
  Bijan from the persian Gulf

• bonnie wong says:
  

  just follow your heart !!
  keep believing keep building, keep raising your voice.

• Weragoda Sujatha says:
  

  Thanks for this reading. We should follow these leaders and do our job for next generation.

• Yanfang Qin says:
  

  “Keep believing. Keep marching. Keep building. Keep raising your voice.”
  Younger generations can make the world a better place.
  Looking forwards to it!

• Patti Gairaud says:
  

  Thank you for this reading. He / they have my utmost respect, both Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama!

• mateo sevilla says:
  

  we must be continuing what did them done passed leadership,integrity, democracy and inequality.

• Alberto says:
  

  We should be more tolerant and respectful.