Prepare: Update the correct train record after a correction.
Choose a station video with an audible public announcement and a matching caption if available. Make fields for destination, scheduled time, platform, and delay. Do not start by copying every number. First identify which train the announcement concerns. A busy scene can include a clock, a platform sign, and unrelated speech at the same time. Only some of those numbers belong together.
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 |
|---|---|
| Atención, viajeros del tren con destino a Sevilla. | Attention, passengers for the train to Seville. |
| El servicio de las dieciséis veinte saldrá de la vía cinco, no de la tres. | The 16:20 service will leave from platform five, not platform three. |
| Acumula diez minutos de retraso. | It is running ten minutes late. |
| Disculpen las molestias. | We apologise for the inconvenience. |
Your turn / Evidence before guesses
Make your record
Complete the train record. Show the old platform as cancelled and the new platform as current. State the scheduled departure and the reported delay separately. You may calculate a provisional expected departure, but label it as your calculation. Decide whether the announcement gives an arrival time in Seville. Keep that field blank if the evidence does not supply it.
Open the answer key
The service is to Seville, scheduled for 16:20. Platform five replaces platform three. The reported delay is ten minutes. Adding it gives a provisional 16:30 departure, but the announcement does not state that exact time and conditions can change. No arrival time appears. The phrase no de la tres rejects the old platform; it is not a second possible place to board.
Try a changed version
Write three and five on separate cards. As you read the announcement, move five into current and three into cancelled. Now change the sentence to saldrá de la vía tres, no de la cinco. The current platform becomes three. This reversal keeps the task about the correction structure rather than a memorised answer. Leave destination and scheduled time unchanged in this written variation.
The detail that changes the meaning
Con destino a identifies direction of travel. Saldrá concerns departure, not arrival. Vía can describe the track used for boarding in this station context. The correction order matters: five is first and three is negated afterwards. Do not keep the last number merely because it is most recent. Listen for no, which determines the status of that final number.
Take the task to a real video
In a real clip, identify one announcement only. Record its service before its change. Replay the clause around no or cambio if the current platform remains unclear. Check a caption for the rejected number, not only for the new one. Your final record should retain the correction history. For a real journey, use current station displays and staff instructions. A recorded video cannot provide live travel information.
Tool note / Our app
We make Jibber Jabber. Interactive captions can help you inspect the negative phrase that rejects the old platform in a recording. Keep the scheduled time and delay separate in your note. A video is not live service information. Confirm an actual platform with current station displays and staff, not a saved caption.
Questions & answers
Is 16:30 a confirmed departure?
No. It is an arithmetic estimate based on the stated delay. Keep it separate from the announcement's wording.
Is platform three still possible?
Not in this announcement. The speaker explicitly rejects it.
Why record the train first?
A correct platform for the wrong service is not useful. The destination and scheduled time identify the service being changed.
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 train announcement: keep the new platform.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/train-platform-change/