Follow a Portuguese weekend plan with a weather backup

Draw two branches before you press play

Choose a real conversation about a weekend or an outing. Look for a proposal and at least one response. Draw two branches labelled dry weather and rain. If your recording uses a different condition, change the labels. Do not force a weather interpretation onto every se. The condition might concern transport, energy or available money. The diagram should follow the speech, not determine it.

In the sample, the group hopes to walk in a park. They have a backup at a friend's home. Parque means park. Levar alguma coisa para comer means bring something to eat. That food request applies after the two options are introduced, so you must decide whether it concerns one branch or the shared gathering. The wording can leave part of a plan open.

Attach the time to the correct option

Se não chover means if it does not rain. The negative belongs inside the condition. It does not reject the whole plan. Às dez attaches to the park meeting. Se chover introduces a second branch, with a meeting at noon. Write ten beside the park and noon beside the home visit. Do not average the times or treat noon as a correction to every possible plan.

The phrase em casa da Ana identifies Ana's home. It does not say that Ana will collect everyone or provide lunch. A place and a host role are different details. In a real conversation, the person who suggests a home may not be its resident. Use the words that identify ownership or location before adding names to your plan.

Notice what remains undecided

Combinamos melhor amanhã means we will settle the details tomorrow. This tells you that the current exchange is provisional. The two branches are proposals, not a fully confirmed invitation. Mark both as proposed. A listener can correctly hear every activity and still overstate the certainty. Keep a status word beside the diagram: proposed, agreed or unresolved. Change it only when a later response supports the change.

Play your selected conversation once for the activities. Listen again for the conditions and times. On the last pass, find any sign of confirmation or delay. Check the captions for the negative in se não chover. A missed não swaps the branches. If the audio is unclear, record two possible interpretations and use the following turn to test them.

Use a short conditional summary

We make Jibber Jabber. Caption lookup can help you inspect a condition in an available real video. Use the Portuguese listening guide for broader practice. The app is not a forecast service and does not organise the gathering in this example. The worksheet prepares you to identify a conditional plan in speech, not predict which branch will happen.

Finish with two if sentences in English: if it stays dry, the group meets at the park at ten; if it rains, they meet at Ana's at noon. Then add that details will be settled tomorrow. For a new challenge, choose a conversation where transport changes but the activity stays the same. Draw branches by transport instead of weather. This prevents the diagram from becoming a memorised weather exercise.

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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