Track a Portuguese meeting reschedule

Write the old plan before the new one

Choose a real spoken update about an event or meeting. Make a four-row card: day, time, place and format. Give each row an old column and a new column. If the old value is not stated, write unknown. You do not need a full original invitation to hear what changes, but you must avoid filling blanks with your own schedule. This is especially important when a speaker says everything else stays the same.

The example changes Tuesday's time and room. Terça is short for terça-feira, Tuesday. Quarta is Wednesday. These similar day names deserve separate attention. The sample explicitly rejects a move to Wednesday. That rejection is useful information. Put Wednesday in a crossed-out proposal box rather than in the confirmed day field.

Listen for unchanged fields

Mantém-se means stays the same. Continua a ser means continues to be. Both can preserve part of a plan while another part changes. In our example, a reunião continua na terça keeps the day. Passa das nove para as dez moves the time from nine to ten. The prepositions das and para link old and new values. An isolated dez does not tell you whether it is the start, end or room number.

Na sala dois, não na três gives a second correction. Room two replaces room three. The negative contrasts two locations. It does not cancel the meeting. Put the room number in the place row even though it is another number. A common listening error is writing all numbers in the time row and then struggling to explain why a meeting has three start times.

Treat confirmation as a separate action

The final request pede confirmação asks for a reply. It does not itself confirm attendance. If the speaker says confirmem até hoje, the deadline concerns the listeners' replies. It may be much earlier than the event. Make a fifth field for response action when needed. That field keeps planning information and requested behaviour distinct. You can understand the new schedule but still miss what you are supposed to do next.

On a first pass, mark only the changed rows. On the second, fill the new values. On the third, write the unchanged values and the reply request. Open captions after that. Compare your grid rather than rereading the whole exchange without a purpose. If a caption says sala três but the speaker clearly corrects it to sala dois, note the mismatch and check again.

Retell only the final plan

We make Jibber Jabber. Interactive captions can help you inspect a rescheduling phrase in an available real video. The listening guide offers a wider plan. Jibber Jabber is not a calendar service. This page supplies a practice grid, not an event invitation. Do not use its invented meeting details as an example of a real organisation's policies.

Finish with the final day, time and room, then state the reply deadline separately. Keep the rejected Wednesday proposal out of the final invitation. For a second task, choose a scene where the date changes but the time stays the same. Use the same four rows. The contrast checks whether you truly attach a change to its field, rather than assuming that every update moves a meeting one hour later.

Questions & answers

Sources for this entry

• Jibber Jabber feature documentation ↗ — supports the caption and vocabulary feature statements. Checked 9 November 2026.
• Workbook method — explains our original examples, regional labels and limits. The exercises are editorial practice, not research findings or recorded transcripts.

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Useful terms: repair, listening evidence, inference and listening task.