A story is more than a list of verbs. You need to know who did each action, what changed, and which explanation belongs to the speaker. These sheets use short everyday narratives rather than grammar lectures. You will sort an event sequence, distinguish a report from a fact, and compare a firm plan with a possible one.

How to work through this section

Start with the lost-key story. Make a simple timeline without trying to name a tense. Then use the message and intention sheets to separate what was said from what is known. The final two sheets ask you to connect an action to a reason and to update a description after a correction. Keep evidence beside each conclusion.

Every key explains the original written scene only. Use the real-video task to build a fresh record. Keep a question mark beside missing information. It is better to leave a price or a person's intention unknown than to add a detail the speaker never supplied.

Five worksheets, in practice order

  1. A lost-key story in Spanish: reconstruct the event orderDistinguish a search, a belief, and a discovery.
  2. A Spanish phone message: who said what, and to whom?Recover a message without assigning it to the wrong person.
  3. Spanish plans: separate a wish, a possibility, and a promiseGive each planned action an evidence-based confidence label.
  4. A Spanish everyday story: match the action to its reasonExplain a changed plan with the stated reason, not a plausible guess.
  5. Identify a person in Spanish after a description is correctedBuild a current description without preserving a rejected detail.

Use a recording, not a memorised answer

Try the text task first. Then select a recording with the same kind of decision, not necessarily the same setting or wording. A counter-offer can occur in a shop, a booking call, or a social plan. Your record should follow what happens in the chosen clip.

We make Jibber Jabber. Its video tools can support the caption-checking step. Read our Spanish listening guide for the wider practice context. The workbook's answer keys are not built into the app.

Browse the complete library to change sections, or read the task glossary when an evidence label is unfamiliar.

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Jibber Jabber. “Follow the story: Spanish listening tasks.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/topics/follow-the-story/