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.

4 comments

• Alhanoof says:
  

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• Alberto says:
  

  Progresses in the aerospace industry are very slow so that it will be difficult to see a group of people living in Mars in the upcoming years.

• Tara Benwell says:
  

  Hi Bijan,

  Sometimes I try to make the news a bit more difficult! I’m glad you found this one challenging. Keep up the great work.

  Tara

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, wow!
  This week’s news report is very difficult for me. It’s the first time in recent months that I couldn’t understand the news without seeing the text.

  In addition, I couldn’t fill a few words in the blanks. I guess this week’s news report is in advanced level while my level is upper-intermediate.

  Third, I will listen to the news report again and again until can understand the words well without seeing the text. Sir Josef sent me an email several months ago about secrets for learning English. One of them was:
  Listen, Listen, Listen….

  Finally, as I understood about the news it’s very interesting that the dummy and his car is now expected to orbit around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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