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.

10 comments

• José Lucas says:
  

  This text helped me a lot to learn English and improve my skills, mainly listening and reading. Thank you

• Vo Thi Kim Anh says:
  

  Thank you Tara. I could fill in the blank all the words. Even though I had to listen many times.

• 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 the words, so I’m so happy because of this subject.

  Third, I feel you have said this audio news report slower than the last week because your speaking’s speed is slow and so clear.

  Teacher Tara,
  Thank you so much for saying the news reports step to step with your learners.

  Teaching is an art that it needs to have love, love to teaching and love to the students (my opinion) and believe you have the art too.

  I myself was a teacher before and loved my students and didn’t teach for the money. A real teacher only teaches for his/her love in the first step.

  Fourth, Oh! It’s horrible to listen this audio news report.
  I had heard about Mafia before that do these terrible murders in Italy, but I never knew that there are these horrible murders in Mexico.

  I hope all of us to hear about the good news in future weeks.

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

• Marie-Danielle O ‘Reilly says:
  

  Thank you so much Tara for your very interesting reports about Mexicans. Your true stories are written so clearly and on top of that your vocabulary is very helpful. You voice is very understandable and I always your next story with joy.
  The way you present your lessons are very enjoyable and rich in ideas.
  Marie-Danielle O’Reilly

• Gabriel says:
  

  Godo evening Tara, about your note I Willian soy that it was interesting, I want to receive more notes like this, I’ll apareciste your notes. Have a godo weekend.

• Kareeem says:
  

  Thanks for this new. It is help me to better in English

• bassam says:
  

  Hi
  It ‘s good exercise …..bassam

• Alberto says:
  

  I think so. In my humble opinion, a lot of young people join cartels because they don´t have another way of living.

• Patricia says:
  

  Hi Tara
  It was a very interesting note, the violence is part of the drugs, becouse they are ilegals. When somebody consum drugs the cartel get a lot of money and the problem increase. Everybody need to be aware of that.
  Thank you

• Edson Bim says:
  

  I would like to receive lessons.