Prepare: Give each planned action an evidence-based confidence label.
Choose a real conversation about a weekend or a future visit. Make three notebook labels: wish, possibility, and commitment. These are practical reading labels, not a formal scale of certainty. Tone and context can qualify a promise too. Begin with explicit wording before you infer attitude from a smile or a confident delivery. This worksheet does not teach a full future-tense system.
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 |
|---|---|
| Me gustaría ir a Granada este verano. | I would like to go to Granada this summer. |
| Quizá vaya en agosto, si consigo vacaciones. | Perhaps I will go in August, if I can get time off. |
| ¿Ya has comprado el billete? | Have you bought the ticket yet? |
| Todavía no. Pero te llamo el viernes y te lo confirmo. | Not yet. But I will call you on Friday and confirm it. |
| De acuerdo, no reservo nada hasta entonces. | All right, I will not book anything until then. |
Your turn / Evidence before guesses
Make your record
Label the wish to visit, the August possibility, the Friday call, and the other person's booking decision. Identify the condition on August travel. Decide whether any ticket has been bought and whether Friday is a departure date. Finally, write one sentence that preserves both the hopeful plan and the unresolved time-off condition.
Open the answer key
The Granada visit is a wish. August travel is a possibility conditional on getting time off. The speaker commits to a Friday call and confirmation. The other person agrees not to book before then. No ticket has been bought. Friday is the promised contact date, not a departure date. A suitable summary is: the speaker hopes to visit Granada in August if time off is available and will confirm on Friday.
Try a changed version
Underline only the words that limit certainty: gustaría, quizá, si, and todavía no. Then circle the promised action and its day. Remove quizá and the vacation condition in a written variation: Voy en agosto; ya tengo el billete, meaning I am going in August; I already have the ticket. That version supports a firmer plan, but it still does not prove a journey has taken place.
The detail that changes the meaning
Me gustaría expresses a wish without completing a booking. Quizá makes the travel possible, not fixed. Si consigo vacaciones adds a requirement. Todavía no answers the ticket question directly. Te llamo uses a present form for a future contact in this context, so do not classify commitment by tense alone. The surrounding promise and day reference supply the practical meaning.
Take the task to a real video
For the selected video, keep plans on a separate page from completed events. Give each plan a wording-based label and copy the short phrase that supports it. If the speaker changes their mind later, update the label rather than erase the earlier position. Use captions to check a qualifier you missed. Your summary should not make a possible holiday sound like an issued itinerary or a completed visit.
Tool note / Our app
We make Jibber Jabber. Use word lookup to inspect a qualifier such as quizá after you have labelled the plan. Save the expression with its context rather than as a promise word. The app does not assess the speaker's sincerity or confirm a booking. Your certainty labels are evidence notes, not product-generated scores.
Questions & answers
Does a future action always sound firm?
No. A word such as quizá or a condition can leave it open. Listen to the whole statement.
Is Friday the travel date?
No. It is the day of the promised call and confirmation.
Does me gustaría mean the person will not go?
No. It expresses a wish. The outcome remains open until more information appears.
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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Cite this worksheet
Jibber Jabber. “Spanish plans: separate a wish, a possibility, and a promise.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/intentions-versus-promises/