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.

5 comments

• Olesea says:
  

  I think the life will not be discovered on another planet nither within next century. It is always supposed. In my opinion humans never will be able to comprehend that. Our desire pushes us to imagine that the life could be on another planets.

• alex says:
  

  Its very good helps improve listening

• Alberto says:
  

  I am not sure if we will find life in another planet in 10 years time but I am sure that we are very close to do it.

  One of the reasons we didn´t find life in the planets around the Earth is that we haven´t found water yet. But the case of these seven planets is different. They have water…

  We need only a few years to find the first alien…

• Valentina says:
  

  Thank you, Tara. Yes, it’s an exciting news. First, I heard it on TV and as far as I understand, not all of them are eath-sized, at least one of them is considerably (30%) bigger than the Earth. A very useful activity. I will use it with my students today. Thanks again and may God bless you:)

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi, dear Tara,

  Thank you for the nice news.
  Have a great time and best wishes.
  Bijan from the persian gulf,