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.

8 comments

• Alberto says:
  

  I am not sure about that. I think it is a very big mistake but…. A lot of people who don´t like Oscars became interested in this issue the day before (this is my case).

  I think that we will never know the truth.

• Bijan says:
  

  Dear Unknown and dear Minh Nguyen,

  Nice to meet you.

  Please, write “i” with capital letter in your writing.
  Thus, ” I like ” and ” I hope ” are correct.

  Thanks in advance and best wishes,
  Bijan

• minh nguyen xuan says:
  

  i like oscar but this year they made me disappointed .i hope they will make better next years.

• unkown says:
  

  i like oscar but this years they made me disappointed .i hope they will make better next years.

• unkown says:
  

  This is a disaster.No one will watch oscar anymore

• Bijan says:
  

  Hello, dear Emmanuel,

  I am ready to help you.

  I searched for you on English Club, but I could not find you.

  Best wishes,
  Bijan

• Emmanuel says:
  

  Hello!i’m not speaking verry well english,bat i’ll to speak an i’looking thé perdons man and wumon to help me

• Bijan says:
  

  Dear Tara,

  Thank you for talking about the Oscar 2017 in this week’s news.

  The Oscar 2017 had good news for Iran and Iranian people because an Iranian film (the salesman) won the Oscar award.

  An Iranian astronaut Mrs. Anousheh Ansari and professor Firouz Nadri (former the NASA director) accepted the award on behalf of Iranian director whose name is Mr.Farhadi.

  I have written a blog about the subject on English Club with beautiful images:

  http://www.myenglishclub.com/profiles/blogs/the-oscar-award-for-iran-in-hands-of-an-iranian-astronaut-and

  Thanks a lot and best wishes,