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

• Ali says:
  

  thank u It is a good lesson teacher Tara,

• Sudip says:
  

  Dear Tara
  Thank you for this article.
  I am a tenth standard student and i have completed almost 3 listening test. BUT still i am not familiar with the appropriate method of practicing. I listen once and try to do but I often forget what is the answer.So I play the text in the background and fill up the blanks simultaneously.
  So please help me to practice with appropriate way.

• Marie-Danielle O’Reilly says:
  

  Japanese people are the cleanest people in the world. They should teach children in Canada. Being à French teacher , you should see what they do with their bubblegums. ||||
  🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

• Farhad says:
  

  Hi Tara
  I hope people learn good things from different cultures

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  I have heard you want to leave the website, I’m so sad because of this.

  Please don’t leave here because I and other learners have used to your best method for improving our listening.

  Teacher Tara,

  I know you love your students because you spend your time for them free of charge, so you accept my request on behalf of all your learners.

  Teacher Tara,

  All of us like you with all of our hearts. Please, don’t leave English Club.

  I look forward to hearing good news from you as you always say the good news each Wednesday,

  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, thank you for this week’s news report because it’s about the World Cup that all of us are watching it these days.

  Second, I could understand the audio news report without seeing the text and could also fill in the blanks except one word: “hallways”.

  Third, I have heard about Japanese culture very much, for example they have so discipline in their jobs (and their life) and are also very clean in their houses.

  Thus, it’s not surprised that Japanese fans got busy cleaning up their part of the stadium.

  I hope this nice action to be a symbol for all teams’ fans to act in this way.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thank you for choosing the news reports from many different subjects because this helps your students to learn a lot of vocabularies.

  Best wishes and have a great time in nice Canada,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Julio says:
  

  Hi there!

  Good manner rubbing off on English learners.

  😉

  Thank you.

• Mila says:
  

  Dear Tara,
  Thank you for this article about Japan’s fans behaviour. I’m from Russia. Unfortunately I haven’t heard or read here, in Russia, about this fact.
  I think it would be nice if their manners rub off on people from all countries.

• Labdani says:
  

  It’s useful and helpful manner skills to improve english listening.
  Thanks

• Don says:
  

  No chance that Japanese good manners will rub off on the uneducated slobs from England, that’s for sure. I should know. I’m English