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.

3 comments

• Donald Duck says:
  

  I am very angry at United Airlines because they removed a paying customer with a ticket from the plane. They should have removed partner company’s crew to another flight, instead of the passengers. This behaviour is shameful to this company and I’m not surprised if passengers didn’t choose this company anymore. The doctor should get compensations from the Airline and also the company should apologise for what happened. They should also make sure that this kind of incident would not happen again.
  If I was a passenger on that plane, I would have been afraid of violence. I would not use that Airline again. I hope also that the other 3 removed passengers got compensation for the ticket price.

• José Luis Luna says:
  

  Airlines in general,have been changing their rules and regulations for some time now, and have been doing so slowly and quietly. It seems today is all about money. I remember when airlines were a lot more responsible to their passengers. Let me explain; what happened when a flight was delayed for a long time? They would feed the passengers, whether was breakfast, lunch or dinner. They would even put them in hotels, if such a delay, forced them overnight. I myself received that treatment once, when flying México- Madrid vía Miami. Aeromexico’s flight had some mechanical failure in Miami and we were asked to wait in the boarding lounge, it was about midday, and after some hours went by they offered us box lunches, at about 8 o’clock at night we boarded the plane although, after a couple of hours we returned to Miami, so they sent us to hotels including dinner and breakfast next day. Quite a difference to today when specially United charges you for carrying your baggage. Do they seriously expect you to travel without baggage?

• Bijan says:
  

  Dear Tara,

  Oh!
  It is very strange for me that United Airline wants to remove a passenger who has a ticket.
  Why should United Airline sell more tickets than they have seat?

  I am sorry for the bloodied face of the passenger.