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.

9 comments

• Amalika Khoirun Nisaa' says:
  

  Well, I think Sharopova shouldn’t get that suspension because she didn’t know the rule.

• Rifdah Nur Hidayati says:
  

  I think I don’t know what Meldonium is.

• Masoomeh says:
  

  well as she said she didn’t know that it was banned and they banned this drug just 4 months and she take it before it is unfair someone is punished due to the thing she did not do or know

• Tara Benwell says:
  

  @Helga Thanks for sharing your opinion on this. It often comes down to politics, doesn’t it? Interesting!

• Helga says:
  

  Not only trainers say meldonium restores the body but does not enhance performance, the doctors say the same, and it was included in the list of banned drugs not because of sports but because of the busisness (pharmaceutical mafia) and politics

• Farhad says:
  

  The athlete is the one, who doesn’t use drugs

• Ana Maria says:
  

  Unfortunatelly, most of athlete take banned drugs.

• tuyet says:
  

  To guarantee to be fair,taking illegal substance are supposed to be bannrd

• hojin says:
  

  I think that Sharopova had taken illegal substance.
  Nike worried about his defamation of character because of Sharapova’s behavior