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.

5 comments

• charn pimsarn says:
  

  Hi, Tara
  Thank you for sharing the good article.
  Really, I think the old age is not obstacle for doing job and task, but the regime rule is too hard for old man to administrate the country’s affairs.The change is maybe better.

  Best regards and have a good day.
  Charn from Thailand

• Ân says:
  

  Hi Tara
  This is the first time, i read. I think the age for leader of a nation isn’t importan. Because we should see What he did and will do for nation. It good job or bad!

• Amira says:
  

  I think age of President is not as important as their eligibility for presidency.

• Hugh Nguyen says:
  

  Dear Tata,

  Thank you for giving us an interesting short audio about the politic of Zimbabwe. In my point of view age is not an important matter, the point is how well he does for the country and what he contributes for the nation. But Obviously in this case he was so bad that people make the celebration for his resignation. Surely, he should have been fired many years ago.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I’m surprised how the 93-years-old president of Zimbabwe could act as the president because I saw him on TV that He was so old. Thus, it was better that he resigned many years ago.

  Third, I believe that each politician should leave his position ( or his post) when people of his country like him, not when he has to resign.

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