Prepare: Draw a route from spoken instructions without relying on a street map.
Select a real street tour or a directions exchange with a short route. Put a start point at the bottom of a blank page. Do not assume the top of your sketch is north. This task uses relative movement: straight ahead, across, and left. Landmarks help you check progress, but a named building is not always a destination or a turning point.
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 |
|---|---|
| Sigue recto hasta la farmacia. | Go straight on as far as the pharmacy. |
| Cruza la calle y gira a la izquierda. | Cross the street and turn left. |
| Pasa la panadería. El banco queda enfrente del parque. | Go past the bakery. The bank is opposite the park. |
| ¿Antes del puente? | Before the bridge? |
| Sí, no tienes que cruzarlo. | Yes, you do not have to cross it. |
Your turn / Evidence before guesses
Make your record
Draw the route using arrows. Place the pharmacy at the first crossing point, then show the left turn and the bakery. Add the park and bank as an opposite pair. Mark whether the listener crosses the bridge. Finally, decide whether you know the street names or compass direction. Keep the sketch limited to what the instructions actually supply.
Open the answer key
Go straight to the pharmacy, cross the street, turn left, and pass the bakery. The bank is opposite the park and before the bridge. Do not cross the bridge. No street name or compass direction is given. The order of the instructions supports the movement sequence, but the text does not provide enough detail for a geographically complete map. A simple relative sketch is the correct result.
Try a changed version
Read the route once, cover it, and redraw only the actions. Then add the landmarks from memory in a second colour. This separates route memory from vocabulary memory. As a written extension, replace gira a la izquierda with gira a la derecha, meaning turn right. Redraw that turn only. Keep the bridge limit unchanged. One changed direction should not make you invent a different destination.
The detail that changes the meaning
Hasta marks the end of one movement. Pasa tells you to continue past a landmark, not stop there. Enfrente describes position across from something. Antes del puente gives a limit before the bridge. In cruzarlo, lo refers to the bridge in the previous question. Follow that reference carefully, because the earlier instruction does require crossing a street. The two crossings are not contradictory.
Take the task to a real video
For your real clip, stop after a complete direction and sketch it. Use a square for a landmark, an arrow for movement, and a cross for a forbidden or unnecessary crossing. Check a caption if you are unsure between izquierda and derecha. Then listen again with the sketch covered. The useful outcome is a route you can explain from evidence. Confirm real directions locally before you travel.
Tool note / Our app
We make Jibber Jabber. Check the caption for the short direction that changes your sketch, then look away from the text and follow the scene again. Word lookup can clarify a landmark. The app is not a navigation service. Your drawn route belongs in your notebook, and actual travel requires current local directions.
Questions & answers
Does enfrente mean next to?
No. Here it means opposite, across from the park. Next to would express a different position.
Why not put north at the top?
The exchange gives relative directions only. Adding north would introduce information you do not have.
Do I cross anything?
Yes, a street near the pharmacy. The final line says you do not need to cross the bridge.
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. “Spanish walking directions: turn a description into a route.” Spanish Fieldnotes. Updated 9 November 2026. https://spanishcomprehensibleinput.com/walking-directions-landmarks/