Worksheet 11 · People and plans
Track a family weekend plan in Italian
Answer in brief
Make a person-by-time grid before you choose a shared activity. Someone being free in the morning does not make them available for an afternoon visit.
This written family calendar gives a broad visit window, not a confirmed real appointment or recorded conversation.
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Your task: Find a shared time without moving anyone's commitment. You need paper or a notes file. Try the model before you read the explanation. The answer key applies only to this written model.
Keep each person's calendar separate
When several people discuss a weekend, the topic can remain the same while the available person changes. Draw three rows for Marta, Luca, and the grandparents. Add morning and afternoon columns. Fill the grid before deciding when the visit can happen. A narrative note such as ‘Saturday free after work’ may hide whose work the sentence describes.
The model gives one possible Saturday. It is not a claim about Italian family routines. You do not need to learn family vocabulary beyond the people involved. The listening aim is to attach each availability statement to the correct person and time. Use names in your notes even when the speaker later uses a pronoun.
Original written model · Italian / English
The scene on paper
Sabato Marta lavora fino all'una.
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On Saturday Marta works until one.
Luca porta sua figlia in piscina la mattina, ma dopo pranzo è libero.
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Luca takes his daughter to the pool in the morning, but he is free after lunch.
I nonni sono a casa nel pomeriggio. Possiamo andare a trovarli allora.
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The grandparents are at home in the afternoon. We can visit them then.
Make your decision
- Fill the person-by-time grid. Mark commitments differently from availability.
- Identify the shared visit window. Does the text give an exact arrival time?
- Change the grandparents' afternoon to unavailable. Write one follow-up question.
Open the answer key
- Marta: working until 13:00. Luca: pool commitment in the morning, free after lunch. Grandparents: at home in the afternoon.
- Saturday afternoon is the supported window. No exact arrival time is given.
- Possible answer: Domenica siete a casa? — Are you at home on Sunday? Sunday availability is a question, not a fact.
Separate a task from free time
Marta works until one. Luca must take his daughter to the pool in the morning, but he is free after lunch. The grandparents are home in the afternoon. These details overlap after lunch, not before it. The pool sentence describes a commitment. Do not mistake the familiar activity for a suggestion that the whole family should visit the pool together.
Fino all'una gives the end of Marta's work, not a confirmed arrival at the grandparents' house. The text suggests an afternoon visit but gives no travel time. Your answer should therefore identify the shared part of the day, not invent a precise meeting at 13:00. Accurate listening sometimes means stopping at a broad answer.
Choose the narrowest supported answer
The safe shared window is Saturday afternoon. ‘At one’ is too precise, while ‘Saturday’ ignores a meaningful limit. Practise choosing the smallest answer that the evidence supports. Underline the three pieces of information that make that window possible. If one person has no availability statement, the grid needs a question mark rather than a guessed tick.
For a second round, change the grandparents' line to Nel pomeriggio usciamo — ‘We go out in the afternoon.’ The original visit no longer has a stated shared window. Do not move it to Sunday without permission from the text. Write a follow-up question such as Domenica siete a casa? — ‘Are you at home on Sunday?’ This turns a conflict into a useful next question.
Now use a video you choose
Choose a family-planning scene and write names down before listening for times. In Jibber Jabber, our app, check a time phrase in the interactive captions. The video may leave a person's plans unresolved. Keep that uncertainty in the grid rather than completing it from the pictures.
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Questions and answers
Does fino all'una mean free at one exactly?
It gives the work's end. It does not include travel or guarantee an immediate arrival elsewhere.
Who does trovarli refer to here?
The grandparents. They are the plural people named immediately before the visit proposal.
Must the grid contain exact hours?
No. Morning and afternoon are the right level when the speaker gives only those periods.
Sources for this entry
Marta, Luca, and the grandparents form a fictional planning scene. The key uses only the stated work limit, pool commitment, and afternoon availability. It does not infer a precise arrival or an observed Italian family routine. The video transfer needs new evidence.
Continue this reading path
Return to People and plans to choose another task from this scene group.
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Jibber Jabber. “Track a family weekend plan in Italian.” Italian Listening Workshop. Updated 9 November 2026. https://italiancomprehensibleinput.com/family-weekend-plan/.