Prepare your note
This exercise trains a route sketch from a short spoken-style instruction. It does not provide directions to a real location. You need the order of landmarks, the turn direction, and the final position. Street names can be hard to retain, but a visible object such as a bakery may give your memory a useful anchor. A landmark alone is not enough, however. Turning before the bakery can send you somewhere different from turning after it. Write the relationship beside the landmark.
Draw a starting dot labelled station. Leave enough space for a straight path, a bridge, a bakery, and a final turn. Do not put the library on the page yet. Read the French instructions once, then sketch the route. For a second attempt, use only arrows and simple boxes. That checks whether your note records the practical path instead of copying complete sentences. The text supplies all the geographical relationships you need for this fictional map.
Your scene task
En sortant de la gare, continuez tout droit jusqu’au petit pont. Traversez-le.
Après la boulangerie, prenez la première rue à gauche. La bibliothèque est au bout de cette rue, en face de la pharmacie.
Show English translations
On leaving the station, continue straight ahead as far as the small bridge. Cross it.
After the bakery, take the first street on the left. The library is at the end of that street, opposite the pharmacy.
Make your decision
Draw the route and label the library’s position. Explain whether the left turn comes before or after the bakery. State which object traversez-le refers to. Then identify what the pharmacy tells you: is it a place to pass before turning, or a landmark opposite the destination? Keep the distinction clear. The message does not give distance or walking time. Add neither to your sketch unless you mark them as unknown. Your goal is a usable order of landmarks, not a realistic city map.
Open the answer key
Leave the station, continue straight to the small bridge, and cross it. Pass the bakery, then take the first street on the left. The library is at the end of that street, opposite the pharmacy. Le in traversez-le refers to the bridge. The pharmacy locates the final destination; it is not a required earlier stop. Your sketch can be rough and still be correct if these relationships hold. It does not need street widths, building numbers, or an invented compass direction.
The distinction that matters
Tout droit means straight ahead. À droite means to the right. The shared spelling droit can distract you, so keep the complete phrase in view. Au bout de cette rue means at the end of this street, not at the beginning. En face de means opposite or across from. It does not necessarily mean inside the same building. Après la boulangerie is the trigger for the left turn. If you turn as soon as you see a bakery, you may miss the stated order.
Try the task on your own video
Choose your own French walking tour or scene in which someone gives directions. Sketch only the section you can follow. We make Jibber Jabber. Its caption word lookup can help you check a position phrase in an available video. It does not give live navigation or guarantee accessible routes. In real travel, check maps and local conditions separately. For the listening exercise, compare your sketch with the spoken relationships, then replay the turn instruction without reading to see whether the landmark still leads to the same action.
Questions and answers
Is tout droit the same as à droite?
No. Tout droit is straight ahead; à droite is to the right.
Must I draw a detailed map?
No. A simple sketch is enough if the turns and landmarks have the right relationships.
How long is the walk?
The message gives no distance or time, so the answer remains unknown.
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Jibber Jabber. “Follow French directions using landmarks.” French Listening Atelier. Updated 9 November 2026. https://frenchcomprehensibleinput.com/directions-landmarks/.