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.

2 comments

• Teetotaller says:
  

  Who would have guessed that squeaky clean Coco-Cola would be muddying their sugar-coated hands with alcohol? 🍷

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I could fill in the blanks except one word (growing).
  In addition, I didn’t know the meaning of the word sparkling, so searched for it in the Cambridge Dictionary and learned a sparkling drink is one that contains many small bubbles of gas.

  Third, you had pronounced ” the US ” before in your news reports and I had listened to it many times, but in the above text you have pronounced “…unknown in the US…” in the last sentence very beautiful and I would love to listen to it again and again and enjoy listening to it very much. It’s very nice pronunciation. Please, you always pronounce it in this nice way.

  I believe the nice pronunciations can encourage the students for listening very much.

  Teacher Tara,
  Thank you for your beautiful pronunciation.

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