Listening: A News Report Climate Change
A news report climate change is a B2 listening text in the broadcast-news genre. The audio covers a news report on a climate-related event or development — wildfires, flooding, a policy announcement, a research finding — with the conventional news structure: headline, key facts, expert source, context, implications. Learners practise tracking news-formal register, catching essential facts, and identifying the report’s framing.
This worksheet builds B2 listening comprehension through a broadcast-news audio.
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What’s inside:
- A news-report audio (~4 minutes) with annotated transcript
- Pre-listening vocabulary box with news-and-climate terms
- News-tracking task: capture the 5Ws (who, what, when, where, why)
- Multiple-choice on report structure and source attribution
- Production task: write a 100-word news summary of a current climate story
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Broadcast-news listening at B2 is fast and information-dense. News-formal vocabulary: officials have confirmed, scientists report, experts warn, the government has announced. Distinguishing factual reporting from interpretive framing.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B2, in upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Listening Part 3 and C1 Advanced (CAE) Listening. Part of the Travel, Work & Stories Listening collection — the natural next step is A Debate: Should School Be Compulsory, which extends news listening into argumentative format.
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