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.

6 comments

• Yolaine Mendoza says:
  

  with the pope’s speech. if I agree because I think it’s not appropriate to take pictures during a mass about it and that’s what one is going to do to pray don’t take pictures, but if I’m doing a parenthesis here and it’s that I’d take a picture if it’s first time I visit the place

• Michelle Vasquez Bonilla says:
  

  I understand taking photos, but going to such a wonderful place must be difficult to control, however it is not well done nor are cell phones at mass.

• Norbert Seihon says:
  

  Yes, I agree. Use mobile phones during mass is shameless.

• Ana says:
  

  Hi Tara. Thank you for share this lesson with us. I agree with Pope Francis when he said: taking photos during a mass is ” an ugly thing” I think this is a lack of respect!!!! (my opinion)
  best wishes !!!

• Alberto says:
  

  I completely agree with Pope Francis but I understand people who go to Vatican city for the first time and they want to take pictures of everything.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I didn’t know that some people use mobile phones during mass. Oh! It’s very impolite (my opinion).

  Third, I agree with Pop Francis that taking photos during prayers is “an ugly thing.”

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