Snow Patrol Live

 2013 European City of Culture, Derry/Londonderry, will host a  concert this evening which promises to be fantastic.

Snow Patrol and The Undertones will be among the big names.

If you aren't in Northern Ireland  you can follow the link to BBC Radio on the right and listen to it live on Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle.
A brilliant start!

But if pop music is not your style , for  San Sebastian's Day today there is a concert at TAM to celebrate Verdi's bi - centenary.
19.30h Teatro Adolfo Marsillach San Sebastián de los Reyes.
Happy Feast Day, Sanse!

Beautiful quote that accompanies the Campari ad

For one moment our lives met,
our souls touched.

OSCAR WILDE

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

English For Travelling recommences today at 19h. and continues each Wednesday at the same time.

Our next reading at thelocal library will be on the 15th  January at 19h 15.
Act 3 of An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde.
Here is a quote or two:

....'pitiless in her perfection'

'All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity.'

2013 THE YEAR OF CHANGE

Happy New Year!!!

2013 will be the year of change, travel, movement, fun.
For the European Union it is the year of the citizen.
For Ireland it is the year of the gathering.
Gather your friends and visit Ireland.

You will feel at home there.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

I tried to remember that quote from Oscar Wilde but he is such an artist with words that approximations never do him justice..

Here is an extract from yesterdays reading, 'The Ideal Husband'

 Sir Robert Chiltern, the respected and admired Underscretary for Foreign affairs,  wrestles with the possibility of seeing his whole world collapse  because eighteen years beforehand

'he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling to a Stock Exchange speculator a cabinet secret.'

and admits

'Wealth has given me enormous power.'

 Lord Goring does not understand ,

'How you of all the men could have been so weak as to yield to such temptation.'

And yet Sir Robert still argues,

'To stake all one's life on a single moment,to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.'


What a plot, what an argument!

NEXT READING

An Ideal Husband  by Oscar Wilde

This is the intriguing title of our next reading. It is a play by Wilde with lots of colourful characters and his provocative witticisms. The plot is woven around guilt and the terrible fear of being caught.

He describes life's temptations :

' ....he expounded to us the most terrible of all philosophies, the philososophy of power, preached to us  the most marvellous of all gospels, the gospel of gold'

and remorse

'I have distributed twice over in public charities since then'

'In public charities? Dear me, what a lot of harm you must have done.'

Wilde preferred social justice over charity.

We will read the first two acts hopefully.

This is the quote that Julie was telling us  is inscribed on a statue  of Oscar Wilde in Charing Cross.

We  are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Todos estamos en la cuneta pero algunos miramos las estrellas

Lord Darlington

What a coincidence that it is from the play we finished reading yesterday evening,  Lady Windermere's Fan.

Wonderful to see you again and hope those who couldn't make it will join us again on the 11th.

The quota

The quota is the same as last year and we renew it when we remember to every year. 

It's 15E payable to 

Asociación Educativa Oscar Wilde

La Caixa (beside La U.P.)

2100- 1984 -72- 0200130268

ENGLISH FOR TRAVELLING

ASEDOW is offering a 30h course for adult learners.
You can find out more by contacting us at asedow@gmail.com.

Basically it is for people who have studied English, it's in their head but they are unsure how to use it.

It starts in November and there will be only two classes in December and we begin again in January.
You will be paying for three months.

So these are the dates to mark in your calendar if you are interested:



21st Nov
28th Nov
5th Dec
12th Dec
9th Jan
16th Jan
23rd Jan
30th Jan
6th Feb
13th Feb
20th Feb
27th Feb

Hope you can take advantage of this great opportunity.

Best website

 www.world-english.org

This is a great website for the native speaker as you can click into listening to your local radio station so easily.
For learners you can test your English and find lots of attractive exercises to do-
Mark it as a favourite.