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.

14 comments

• Ariana Vieira says:
  

  It has been a great plesure learning, teaching and developing my skills from you. Thanks a lot English Club. Ariana from Brazil.

• dr.salwa kotb says:
  

  i think twitter is not appropriate place for officials for talking about relationships with other countries
  and i disagree with interfering for domestic issues in other countries

• Rasheed JImoh says:
  

  Thank you for giving us current English teaching and learning vocabularies.

• Aivars says:
  

  Hi Tara, I enjoyed this English lesson. It had interesting content on Tweeter and also good language practice. Thanks a lot, Aivars

• Alberto says:
  

  In my humble opinion governments should express their opinion wherever they want provided that they do it in a respectful way.

  In adition, every country must speak out against other countries and organizations which do not respect the human rights.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I could understand the audio news report without seeing the text and could fill in the blanks all words except the words “release and domestic”.

  Sometimes, I’m surprised why cannot I fill in the blanks easy words like “release and domestic” while I have heard them on your lessons before?

  I don’t know why?

  Third, I see every day that Tweeter is used by politicians and journalists so much and most of them use the website for sending message and also their opinions to each other.

  I read somewhere, president Donald Trump has said that he could be the president of the US because of using Tweeter. If it’s true, so Tweeter is very very important.

  Thus Tweeter has an important role in our world now and we cannot deny its role.
  if we want or if we don’t want, Tweeter has become a place for governments to express concerns about foreign affairs.

  I myself like Tweeter so much and use it for giving tweets in affairs love and so on. Please, you know that I’m so romantic and feel Tweeter is the best place that I can say my feelings about love, peace, friendship and so on to others easily. And also I use Tweeter for sharing my lessons in English language.

  I feel Tweeter has become more important than Facebook now and has an unique place on the Internet.

  So it’s not surprised when we see conflict between Saudi Arabia and Canada sparked by tweet.

  I suggest to the students to use Tweeter for two following subjects:

  1. Tweet about peace, love and friendship among countries and religions and so on.
  2. Tweet for sharing their lessons in English language.

  Teacher Tara,

  Thanks to you and Teacher Josef who’s the founder of the website that I can share my comments easily.

  Best wishes and have a hot heart in this hot summer,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Mukesh joshi says:
  

  This is very interesting Iam trying to understanding but now I can’t fill in the blank but soon it will be improve and and I will do it
  Thanks to TARA

• Nadira says:
  

  Will work on practicing what you have taught us at My EC.
  BLESSINGS to you always.
  Nadura

• OSMAN says:
  

  Dear Tara,

  I feel interesting about lessons, I knew much from English Cub.

  Thanks.
  Osman

• Flor says:
  

  Thanks , I can learn more new words and catch the words in english.

• Cumbe says:
  

  Thanks so much for your dedication to us .

• Bopha says:
  

  Dear Teacher Tara,

  I’m feeling interest about your lessons. Now I can listen more than last week. Thank you!

  Yours Faithfully,

  Bopha.

• Jose Gregorio Caldera says:
  

  Hi! Im new here and Im delighted with the content you post just for helping us to learn this wonderful language. Thank you so much! You have no idea how much you’re help us out! Greetings from Venezuela!

• justo hernandez castell says:
  

  Hello Miss or Mrs Bedwell,

  First of all, I´d like to express my gratefulness and recognition

  for the work you are doing to help English students and teachers

  as well. I´m a non-native teacher of English myself, teachin this

  important language here in Barcelona, Spain.

  Please, keep that useful work.

  Best weishes,

  Justo H. Castell