Separate a delay from a cancelled task in Portuguese

Start with three status boxes

Find a real spoken update about preparing an event, making a video or completing a group project. Avoid a dense specialist report. Draw boxes labelled late, can continue and must wait. A delivery delay may affect one task but leave others possible. If you write only project delayed, you lose the useful part of the update. Listen for work that the speaker explicitly keeps active.

The sample concerns printed posters and an event room. Cartazes means posters. Montagem means setup in this scene. Divulgação means publicity or promotion. These nouns identify separate work streams. The worksheet does not assume that publicity needs the physical posters; the speaker states what can happen now. Use the message's own dependency rather than your knowledge of event planning.

Hear the new time without erasing uncertainty

Só chegam na quinta means they only arrive on Thursday in the sample's Brazilian wording. The subject is the posters. The next line moves setup to Friday. Thursday is an arrival day, not the new setup day. Give each date its own noun. A bare list of Thursday and Friday can look accurate while failing to show which event occurs on each day.

Foi adiada means was postponed. Foi cancelada means was cancelled. They describe different outcomes. In the sample, setup remains planned but later. Put it in a postponed row, not a cancelled row. If a real update uses previsto, expected or planned, preserve that uncertainty. A forecast arrival is not the same as a confirmed delivery that has already happened.

Find the task that remains possible

Podemos divulgar hoje means we can publicise it today. The delay does not block this task. Mas não confirmem a sala ainda means but do not confirm the room yet. The negative holds one action. It does not prevent all event preparation. Make arrows only where the speaker gives a dependency. Do not join every task to the late posters just because they share the same project.

Listen first for the object that is late. Then listen for the next scheduled action. On a third pass, find one permission and one restriction. Those two details can be less noticeable than the dates, but they are central to the practical meaning. Check captions for podemos and não confirmem. Missing the negative reverses the instruction even if every date is correct.

Write a summary that preserves active work

We make Jibber Jabber. Its captions can help you check a short update in an available video. The Portuguese listening guide gives a wider routine. The app does not track project deliveries or confirm bookings. The original exercise is only a model for extracting action information. Use a real project's agreed communication channel to confirm actual work.

Finish by writing four lines: late item, revised setup, work allowed now and work held. Compare them with the key. For the transfer task, choose an update where a late item causes an actual cancellation. Add a cancelled box only when the speaker supports it. This contrast teaches you to hear the difference between delay and cancellation rather than treating every negative update as the end of the project.

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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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