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.

5 comments

• M. Alessandra Agostini says:
  

  I think that conflicts always create many problems, anyway. I wonder why there are wars in very poor countries like Congo, especially in the third millenium. I hope someone in the world could solve that problem before very serious starvation.

• shamsy says:
  

  hi Tara
  it is unfortunate that people might die from the starvation and flee their homes due the conflict in these ages, i hope these problems solved as soon as possible.
  thank you Tara

• Ibrahim Towair says:
  

  Hi Tara,according to the World Health Organaization WHO about Congo,it is the most important for rich countries to stay behind and care on them to get rid of the starve.

• Alberto says:
  

  In my humble opinion, we should eat or use only what we need. I think that overconsumption is creating problems in rich countries as well as in poor ones.

• Bijan says:
  

  Hi Tara,

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

  Second, I’m sorry for hearing the bad news about Congo. It looks like that we are used to hearnig the bad news in our new world because I myself hear the bad news every day, but rarely hear or read the good news on the Internet.

  I hope the rich countries to help to Congo in this subject soon.

  Thank you and best wishes,
  Bijan from the Persian Gulf