Prepare: Build a current description without preserving a rejected detail.
Find a real scene in which someone identifies a friend, a presenter, or a person in a crowd. Make a description card with clothing, carried object, and position. Do not use a language exercise to identify a private person outside the scene. This task concerns references and corrections inside a recording. A colour heard clearly still gives the wrong result if attached to the wrong item.
A worked Spanish exchange
This is an invented teaching example. Read the Spanish first. Use the translation to check meaning, not as a substitute for real listening.
| Spanish | English meaning |
|---|---|
| Es la chica de la chaqueta roja, junto a la ventana. | It is the woman in the red jacket, next to the window. |
| ¿La que lleva una mochila negra? | The one carrying a black backpack? |
| No, perdona, la chaqueta es azul. Roja es la bolsa. | No, sorry, the jacket is blue. It is the bag that is red. |
| Está hablando con el camarero. | She is talking to the waiter. |
| Ah, ya la veo. | Ah, I can see her now. |
Your turn / Evidence before guesses
Make your record
Write a final description using only supported features. Mark the initial jacket colour as rejected. Decide whether the black backpack is confirmed. Identify the current position and activity. Then explain why the final line does not add another visible feature. It reports successful identification rather than providing a new item of clothing.
Open the answer key
The current description is a woman with a blue jacket and a red bag, next to the window, talking to the waiter. The initial red jacket is corrected. The black backpack appears only in a question that is not confirmed; do not keep it as an established feature. Ya la veo indicates that the listener now sees her. It does not independently confirm every detail in the earlier question.
Try a changed version
Draw a person outline. Place blue beside jacket and red beside bag, then cross out the earlier red-jacket label. Put the backpack outside the outline with a question mark. As a written extension, add Sí, y lleva una mochila negra, meaning Yes, and she carries a black backpack. Only that added confirmation would move the backpack into the final description. Keep additions separate from the original evidence.
The detail that changes the meaning
La que introduces the person matching a description. Perdona signals a correction. The speaker moves roja from jacket to bag and supplies azul for the jacket. Junto a la ventana remains uncorrected, so it stays on the record. Lleva can mean wears or carries depending on the object. A backpack is carried here, while a jacket is worn. Let the noun guide the English meaning.
Take the task to a real video
In the real video, give each descriptive noun its own field. Listen for a correction before filling a field permanently. If the camera shows several people, do not choose solely from a guessed colour. Check the caption around the noun and its adjective. Finish with a current description and a short correction history. This helps you see whether your error came from sound, reference, or an outdated detail.
Tool note / Our app
We make Jibber Jabber. Caption lookup can help you attach a colour to its correct clothing or bag noun. Recheck the correction rather than save the first description you hear. The app does not identify private people or verify your description card. Keep uncertain features marked as uncertain in your own note.
Questions & answers
Is the jacket red?
No. The speaker corrects it to blue and assigns red to the bag.
Is there definitely a black backpack?
The question mentions one, but the answer does not confirm it. Leave that feature uncertain.
Does the window location still apply?
Yes. The correction changes the jacket colour, not the location or the later activity with the waiter.
Sources for this worksheet
The dialogue, task, variation, and key are original editorial teaching material. They are not a transcript, a quotation, or a report of a real transaction.
- Official Jibber Jabber sources — supports the tool description and plan limits, not a claim about learning results. Retrieved 9 November 2026; source reviewed 28 October 2026.
- Workbook method — explains the evidence labels and the limits of the written key.
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Jibber Jabber. “Identify a person in Spanish after a description is corrected.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/description-after-correction/