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.

3 comments

• Shanu Neelamkavil says:
  

  Trully trully helpful.wish there was updates once in every two weeks.

• Shanu Neelamkavil says:
  

  Trully trully helpful. വിഷ് there was updates once in every two weeks.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I could understand the text more difficult than the last week (of course, without seeing it).

  Thus I listened to the audio news report more than 6 times today and do this again and again for the next week.

  In addition, I could fill in the blanks all words except the word heroic.

  Third, I searched for the word “Spiderman” in the Oxford Dictionary that has two meanings:

  1. A US cartoon, TV and film character who develops special powers….
  2. British informal, A person who works at great heights in building work.

  I guess the hero in this story is a symbol of character who does special powers and am surprised how could the hero do this work?

  Maybe, he is a sport man that we don’t know in which field he is the expert?

  Teacher Tara,

  Thank you for choosing the interesting news for your students.

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