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

• Alberto says:
  

  As far as I can tell this new good relationship will not last because both of them are different leaders with fixed ideas.
  I am not sure what will happen in the near future. Maybe it will depend on the economy of the two countries interests.

• Suong says:
  

  improve my english

• bassam says:
  

  Hello
  Indeed it’s a good exercises for me I need more and more
  Have a good day
  bassam

• Giovanna Rosado Arias says:
  

  Tara, I really appreciate your job, it’s very useful for me, me English is very bad, I can’t understand all that I hear, but I hope with you, I can improve my English.
  About Trump and Kim, They don’t inspire me confidence, I hope they understand the importance of the peace in the world.

• Nayer says:
  

  Hi Tara
  Thank you for this news.
  Im sad that there are still those who easily bloodshot for there own entrests.

  Long live peace.
  Long live liberty.

• lin lin soe thu says:
  

  Dear Mr Josef,

  Thank you so much for teaching of listening method.
  I feel very clear with the sound.
  Knows about the news between of the two country.

• jorge paulo says:
  

  iam here too

• Alexander says:
  

  Hi Sara thank you for the blogs also for working in english club .. First i think the meeting between USA and NORTH COREA will bring a good deal to the world and hope to live without guns that it can injure to our planet and to us.

  Regards

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, I’m so happy today, because of the three following reasons:

  1. You have told your students the best news about the peace. I love to have the peace in the world.

  2. It’s the first time that I could understand the audio news report in the best way because I nearly heard all the words clearly without seeing the text.

  3. It’s the first time that after one year and five months I could fill in the blanks all the words.

  Oh! My God.
  You don’t know how much I’m happy because of this subject.

  I feel you have spoken the news report very clearly and very slowly.

  Teacher Tara,
  Thank you so much for helping your students because of using the best method for improving listening of them.

  Dear Mr.Josef,
  Thanks to you too for creating the nice website for the learners free of charge, and also thanks to you for choosing the best teachers like Teacher Tara.

  I have been on line for learning English since 2009 and have visited a lot of English language websites, but they weren’t like English Club.

  Second, I think everybody is happy because of this historic meeting.
  I read on the news before, if a war happened between the US and North Korea, nearly 10 millions people were killed.

  Why the war?
  Why were innocent people killed?

  I myself love the peace and hope this historic meeting is an introduction for the peace in the world, and also hope the president of the US to help for ending other wars around the world.

  Finally, I myself would like to be an ambassador of peace for all countries regardless of nationality, religion, race and so on.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thanks again for the best news and the best pronunciation.
  Best wishes and have a great weekend in nice Canada,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf