Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction;
While the worst are full of passionate intensity.
This is from The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
The quote is also beside Pablo Picasso's painting of Guernica at the Reina Sofía Art Museum in Madrid
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming
Flexibility
BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / Flexible working
Our talking point for Wednesday 8th June 2022
Canal Norte reports all the latest news stories in San Sebastián De Los Reyes giving support and visibilty to local initiatives such as this assocation.
It gives a good preview of what you can expect when you come to our talks.
Also, you can get a glimpse in other videos of the fabulous entertainment offer we are very fortunate to have in this town all within walking distance.
https://canalnorte.org/videos/de-tertulia-en-ingles-con-la-asociacion-educativa-oscar-wilde-de-sanse/
Our weekly get -
togethers continue.
We had a good
conversation yesterday on the benefits of boredom. Paco suggested the topic and
sent us a link with the intriguing title 'The most boring man in
Britain.'
It certainly
wasn't boring.
We are a
group of people with diverse interests and ages. We meet weekly to talk about
different topics in English. This is why we want you to meet us and join us for
a fun and cultural afternoon.
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LIVELY DEBATES AND DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLISH EVERY WEDNESDAY
If you're a foreigner, it is an opportunity to socialise with the locals; if you're a Spaniard don't let your English get rusty!
(18:30 - 20h Av Baunatal)
A week until Easter Sunday and schools are off for the Easter holidays.
We will be
back on April 20th2022. Enjoy the mini holiday.
In the
meantime here you can browse some articles about Oscar Wilde.
His beautiful
writing is timeless.
The children’s
story The Selfish Giant was the touching inspiration that gave this association
its name.
On another note, this poem is appropriate for Palm Sunday which is today.
The children of the Spanish civil war is a term used to describe the plight of families who had no alternative but to send their children to the safety of countries such as Britain, Mexico and Russia where they awaited the end of the atrocious war. However, the elected government of Spain’s second republic was replaced by a dictatorship that lasted forty years and there was no return.
Franco passed
power on to King Juan Carlos who allowed a referendum where the Spanish people chose
democratic rule.
Spain now
has a constitutional monarchy with King Philip VI as head of state.
This period
is known as the transition and has been exemplary for other nations emerging from
dictatorships.
When
President Zelensky of Ukraine addressed the Spanish Parliament yesterday 5th April 2022 he invoked the
memory of the bombing of Guernica in 1937 when the children of the Spanish
civil war were shipped to freedom from similar horrifying scenes in the Basque
country as in the Ukraine today.
An ancient
oak tree in Guernica survived the bombing and its acorns have been collected
and are given as gifts to symbolise the desire for peace. The current tree
standing in its place in the town of Guernica has grown from one of these acorns
and is only fourteen years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernikako_Arbola
