Distraction
The other night my husband was in the kitchen cutting a lime for a gin and tonic, and as I was a bit stuck on the Spanish lesson I was writing (on the perfect infinitive), I decided to take a little break from work and pick his brain at the same time (his Spanish is much better than mine).
While pouring my tonic, I asked him for some examples of the Spanish perfect infinitive. He thought a moment and then started rattling off sentences as he picked up his glass and went to sit down. Meanwhile, my brain frantically tried to keep up with the Spanish as well as to find the rest of the lime, which seemed to have disappeared. A few seconds later I laughed as it was right in front of me but I’d been too distracted to see it. But my husband went one better: he returned to the kitchen to add both gin and tonic to his drink – he’d been so distracted by the Spanish question that he’d done nothing more than squeeze a wedge of lime over the ice in his glass! I couldn’t stop laughing for more than 10 minutes, and I’m laughing again as I write this.
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Hi Laura
I
know you don’t remember me, but I once wrote a review of you Spanish Verbs book. One question;
I don;t know how to play Hangman. Can anyone help.
Bill Vanson
NYC
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Hi Bill -
Hangman is a word guessing game. It starts with an empty gallows
and spaces for each letter in a word. You click on a letter that you think might be in the
word. If it is, all instances of that letter will show up in the appropriate blank spaces. If
there are no instances of that letter, a body part will appear on the gallows. The goal is to
guess all the letters in the word before the complete body appears and is hanged.
I find
this rather macabre, so on my French site I instead have wrong answers spell out the
exclamation oh là là .
I have numerous French Hangman (and other) games here:
http://french.about.com/library/begin/fun/bl-gameindex.htm
And just a few Spanish games
so far, including today’s new one:
http://www.elearnspanishlanguage.com/vocabulary/hangman-calendar.html
Bon courage !