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.

8 comments

• Rafael says:
  

  Thanks so much for the new I really enjoy to listen. I learn about the Toy Drive

• Tara Benwell says:
  

  Bijan: Thanks for teaching what a toy drive is. The error in the first report has been fixed. Sorry about that!

  Barath: I’m sorry you were unable to play the recording. Can you try again?

  Everyone: Happy New Year! I have enjoyed writing and recording the weekly news for all of you for many years! In 2020, Jaksyn Peacock will be taking over the weekly broadcast. It will be called Listen & Learn. The report will have the same format as Listen to News but with lots of different topics. I’ve been training Jaksyn for the past few months so some of you may have noticed that the voice in the recent recordings sounds slightly different. I’ll be following closely to see how you all are doing. Keep up the great learning! ~ Tara

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi again Tara, Glon and Toya,

  I searched for Toy drive on the Internet and Wikipedia says about it:

  A Toy drive is a charity event that collects toys or money for them to be distributed to those in need.
  This is usually for the celebration of Christmas.

  Best wishes and Happy Holidays,
  Bijan loves all of you,

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

  Happy New Year 2020 in advance!
  I wish you all the best in New Year!

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

  Second, it’s so difficult to me and could understand the subject hardly without seeing the text.

  In addition, I couldn’t answer the questions of comprehension at all. I could only fill in the blanks the words “building” and “managed”.

  Third, I saw that the sentence ” …the department has been taken precautions to prevent …” in the first text has changed to the following sentence in the second text:

  “…the officers have taken precautions to prevent…”

  I couldn’t understand why has this change happened?

  Fourth, for answering to the question of Toya and Glon about Toy Drive, I searched for the meaning of “drive” in the Cambridge Dictionary and found the following meaning:
  a planned effort to achieve something.

  I guess, maybe, the above meaning can justify the meaning of Toy Drive.

  Thank you and have a wonderful holidays,
  Bijan
  from the Persian Gulf

• AMO says:
  

  Hi, please can you help me ? I have a serious problem with listening. What are the solutions that you can suggest me to improve my listening proficiency?

• Baráth Krisztina says:
  

  MP3 file is wrong I couldn’t play. Please, resend for me right MP3 file. Thanks.

• GLON says:
  

  What’s a toy drive?
  a special shop near a highway?
  Thank you for the answer
  A wink from France greeting everybody

• Toya Lemon says:
  

  Nice story, thanks! But what’s a toy drive?