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.

11 comments

• English Club Indonesia says:
  

  The report is about contraption innovation that helps salmon to cross the river. Normally, salmon will use the terraced land as part of the river to be their ladder to climb up. Whoosh Innovation is the group who created the contraption.

  I don’t think it’s really necessary to install this contraption, as it can cause harm to the balance of nature unless they build it for cultivation purposes.

• medeh says:
  

  can i join

• Prak says:
  

  Hi Tara.

  I am faced very difficult to understand this news. Especially words meaning and sentence formation.

  anyhow I am trying to get as much as possible through repeat the same news.

  Thanks
  pra

• Miren says:
  

  I agre completely with Ha Nguyen.

• Bijan says:
  

  Oh!
  Tara!

  Thank you so much for the video. It’s very kind of you.
  I will go to YouTube for watching the video after connecting my VPN. Now, it has been cut and don’t why?
  I learn English language with so many problems.

  Best wishes and have an excellent week,
  Bijan
  from the Persian Gulf

• Tara Benwell says:
  

  Hi, Bijan. Maybe a video will help you understand this news story. Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kICS32kady4

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, it’s so difficult for me and couldn’t understand it without seeing the text.
  In addition, I could only fill in the blanks the word Internet.

  Because of the above reason, I don’t have any opinion about the subject.

  Thank you and best wishes,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf

• Ha Nguyen says:
  

  From my point of view, it is not a good way to help nature by pushing them quickly upstream to the dam. That way may change their natural habitat, normally salmon can get foods such as several insects or little fishes on the way swimming to the destination or facing with many obstacles, which constitutes their natural instinct. At first, we can help them at their spawning phase, but can not help them in the rest of their lifecycle when struggling with other predators.

• Stella says:
  

  1. The report is about the device that push the salmon to their spawing ground
  2. The company that produced the device
  3. The ladder was a means by which the salmon crosses obstruction

  The cannon device will make life easier for the salmon.

• David Martín says:
  

  What is the report mainly about?
  The report is about how fish can cross a dam with the help of a misted cannon.

  What is Whooshh Innovations?
  Whooshh Innovations is the company who has developed the cannon.

  Why does the report mention ladders?
  Before these cannons, fished should jump ladders in order to cross a dam.

  Do you think it’s a good idea to help nature along in this way? Why or why not?
  Yes, it’s a good idea because it doesn’t harm the fish and it helps them to pass the dam quickly.

• Chandrasekharan Kunnath says:
  

  Some of the blanks do not suggest words that are obvious