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

• Teddi says:
  

  HI Tara:
  I enjoyed this week’s news story and look forward to the next one. The comprehension questions and the gapfill are very useful. Thanks for keeping the stories short, so they can be easily studied.

  I look forward to following North Korea and Russia at the Olympics this year! Thanks for building interest with those two stories.

• joseph says:
  

  Hello eveybody
  The position of Noth Korea is getting better after their threat of bombing toward the south Korea
  I think that competition on a stadium is better than fighting with the weapons
  Peace is better than war….Shake hands together

• Alberto says:
  

  In my humble opinion North Korea’s president has changed the way he is acting because China is starting to stop supporting him.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, this week’s news report is very easy for me because I understood it very well in the first step that listened to it without seeing the text.

  Third, it’s good news for all of us that North and South Korea held a face-to-face meeting. I believe one goal of Olympics games is friendship between countries, so we see in this case two countries held the first peace talks in over two years.

  Fourth, about the word cheerleader the Cambridge Dictionary also says:
  “someone who strongly supports a particular idea or person”.

  Thus, it looks like the above word has two different meanings that one of them has been presented by the above text.

  Have a nice weekend and best wishes,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf