That's my sort of book!
Here's one of the games which is is Terrific For Your Welsh ....
... you get a random question ..... and a random word ... and you have to answer the question using the random word. Here's an English example... with 3 ( three) potential answers...
Question " What's your name?" Random word ..... crisps
Answer.... " My name is Caspar the Impressionable, hard to say if you're eating crisps"
Answer 2 ...." I'm Sid, and I'll tell you my surname if you buy me a packet of crisps."
Answer 3 ... " I'm too knackered to tell you, I've been lifting huge cartons of crisp all day."
In the book, it's a competitive game, they each write a question on a bit of paper, and a random word on another bit of paper, and jumble them all up and dish them out so everyone get's a question and a word.
However, if, like me, you have no friends ...well, not that sort of friend anyway, and you're 186 years old etc, you have to come up with a lonelier way of doing it.. here we go ...
You get a Spanish book... the sort with lots of talking in it.
You flick it open randomly and find the first question on that page.That's your question.
You turn the page, and stab your finger at a random spot ... that's your word.
If it's a crap word like "yo" or "con" or "por" , you look along the line until you get to something usable like " empezar" or " huevas" or " meñique" or " oropel." They're proper words.
I'm going to do some now, live, before your very eyes ..........
Q: ¿ Qué hace usted aquí ? Word ... "tentempié"
A : Como un tentempié, tonto.
Q: ¿ Es posible que haya tenido un accidente ? Word " gamba"
A: "¡ Si, es posible, es alérgico a las gambas !"
Q: "¿ Sabe usted lo que pienso, Hector ?" Word " profundidadas "
A: " Desde los profundidadas de mi corazon, yo no"
The idea behind all this is to get better at formulating answers, and doing more than just the basics. Having to use that extra word makes you need to be a bit more creative ...plus it's fun to think up what to do.
Here's some for you to try ..... picked randomly by the "book" method as above ...
[a] Q : "¿ Trastornada ? ¿ Por qué ? " Word .... fabricante
[b] Q: " ¿ Necesita usted tiempo para pensarlo, eh ? " Word .... asechanza
[c] Q: "¿ No llevo sombrero?" Word .... vida
That last bloke was a bit absent-minded by the way. Absent-mindedness is a rich source of comedy. I hope you have a bit of a think about those ,as did I ... now here's a band which was my band of the month a few months ago ...and in some ways, it still is ...it's the subliminally- inclined Los Planetas with " Y ademas es imposible" ..it's a words video ...
Lo que necesito que me des no me lo vas a dar
Dimelo ya
Para qué voy a esperar a lo que nunca va a llegar
Mi alma solo para tí
Es lo que tu sueles decir
¿Porque entonces me siento solo cuando estas aquí?
Dime de quien es el trozo de tu corazón que no puedo tener
Dime porqué por más que lo estuve intentando nunca lo encontré
Lo tengo escondido en el mar
Para que no puedas llegar
Para que te ahogues cansado de tanto nadar
No voy a ir
Lo que tu me pides nadie se lo puede permitir
No voy a ir
Me voy a quedar en casa acordándome de ti
Si tú no te quieres venir
Pues mucho peor para ti
Seguro que alguien entrega su vida por mí
Si tu no me quieres tampoco te quiero yo a tí