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.

16 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  Lots of young Bulgarians are heading overseas to get their degrees.

  Sure, studying abroad sounds exciting, but it’s important to keep things like living costs and culture shocks in mind.

• Changdae says:
  

  Nice material!
  I think this is very helpful for learning English.

• Changdae says:
  

  Nice material!

• Angela says:
  

  Excellent texts for making us to brush up vocabulary and pronunciation!

• sen says:
  

  It is very helpful to practice my listening skill,thank you.

• [email protected] says:
  

  This material is excellent and newer to me, thanks a lot.

• Ali mohamed Mohamed- Buhodle, Somalia says:
  

  excellent material for teaching students

• Maria says:
  

  Good Material!

• Ewelina says:
  

  Dear Sara,

  thank You so much for the breaking news!

  On the one hand, this phenomenon is positive, and on the other hand, negative. Since Bulgaria has been a member of the European Union since 2007, it is still undergoing some transformations.

  The country has a number of problems – other countries and enterprises do not want to invest in it, therefore there is a very low GDP growth and population outflow.

  But transformations and improving living standards in the long run, in my opinion, will benefit the country.

  I thank You for the opportunity to pump my English comprehension skill.

  Have a good week and I look forward to Your next news.

  Best wishes,
  Ewelina

• GLON says:
  

  It’s with great pleasure I com to visit your website each week
  every time I catch something new so it’s very instructive
  In learning a language we improve our knowledge

• Siwei Liu says:
  

  For a new ESL learner, the English club is a great material. Besides of muti-exercises, many learning skills are taught, it’s very helpful for us.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  First, Happy World Teachers Day 2019.

  I wish you and all teachers health, love and peace because all of you make us a new world that is full of love and kindness.

  Second, I could hardly understand the subject without seeing the text, so after seeing the text could got the subject well.

  Third, I answered Comprehension Questions correctly and could fill in the blanks all words except the words “world’s” and “fewer”.

  Forth, it’s an interesting subject to hear about shrinking of population in Bulgaria, but it’s more interesting that I have heard the population is increasing in the third world.

  I myself think that it’s dangerous because of creating the poverty in Africa and some of countries in Asia.

  Thank you for choosing us the new subject.

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

• Lucy says:
  

  1、English Club
  2、Bulgaria’s Population is Shrinking
  3、Leann new words / listening /read
  4、Bulgaria, a southeastern country in the European Union.In the last forty years,the population of Bulgaria has fallen from 9 to 7 million.Young people often leave the country for postsecondary studies and do not return for several years.
  Bulgarians are also having fewer children

• DELBOS says:
  

  great material ! please, continue ! thanks in advance !

• Parniyan Kosha says:
  

  Wow great and really useful material thank you.

• María Cristina Muñoz Dalbora says:
  

  Excellent material for English teachers
  Congratulations