Prepare: Write the agreed plan after a counter-offer.
Choose a social planning scene with at least two speakers. Make fields for activity, day, time, and exact meeting point. Do not stop at the first invitation. A friend may agree to the activity but negotiate the time. A phrase such as at the cinema may still need a clarification about inside or outside. The final reply determines which version to keep.
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 |
|---|---|
| ¿Quedamos el sábado a las siete para ir al cine? | Shall we meet on Saturday at seven to go to the cinema? |
| A las siete salgo de trabajar. Mejor a las siete y media. | I finish work at seven. Better at half past seven. |
| Vale, delante del cine. | All right, in front of the cinema. |
| ¿En la puerta principal? | At the main entrance? |
| Sí, allí nos vemos. | Yes, see you there. |
Your turn / Evidence before guesses
Make your record
Write the complete final plan. Include the day, activity, accepted time, and precise location. Explain what happens at seven and why that is not the final meeting time. Then decide whether the exchange gives the film start time or proves that tickets have been bought. Do not let the shared activity supply facts that the friends have not discussed.
Open the answer key
They will meet on Saturday at 19:30 in front of the cinema at the main entrance, to go to the cinema. One person finishes work at seven. Seven is the rejected meeting time and a stated work-finish time. The exchange gives no film start time, film title, or ticket purchase. The afternoon or evening reading follows the ordinary cinema-plan context here, but an unclear real conversation may need explicit confirmation.
Try a changed version
Write the first proposal in pencil and the agreed plan in pen. Cross out only the time, not the day or activity. Then change the last reply to No, en la entrada lateral, meaning No, at the side entrance. In that variation, keep Saturday and 19:30 but move the meeting point. The exercise shows how a correction can affect one field without replacing the whole plan.
The detail that changes the meaning
Quedamos proposes meeting. Salgo de trabajar supplies the reason for the counter-offer. Mejor introduces the preferred alternative. Vale accepts the new time before the location is refined. Allí points back to the main entrance. Track its reference rather than attach it to work, which is another place mentioned earlier. Delante del cine means in front of the cinema, not inside the auditorium.
Take the task to a real video
During the selected video, mark each proposal with a question mark and each acceptance with a tick. Listen beyond a friendly tone: someone can sound positive while asking for a different time. Check the caption for the last place reference. End with a message you could send back to confirm the plan. Keep missing details as questions instead of adding a plausible film or venue name.
Tool note / Our app
We make Jibber Jabber. Inspect the final place reference in the caption after you identify the accepted time. Keep the agreed plan in your notebook. Premium includes Chat, but a text conversation is not the same as listening to two people negotiate a meeting. This worksheet does not create an actual invitation in the app.
Questions & answers
Does seven remain part of the plan?
It is the work-finish time, but the friends agree to meet at half past seven.
Are the tickets booked?
The exchange does not say. Going to the cinema is an agreed intention, not evidence of a purchase.
What does allí refer to?
The main entrance in the preceding question. It confirms that meeting point.
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. “A Spanish invitation: proposal, counter-offer, and meeting point.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/invitation-time-and-place/