Walk and Talk
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Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The group « Walk and Talk » organises an easy walk once a month – approximately 10 km, 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon – in order to discover or re-discover the beautiful hiking paths of the Maine-et-Loire. Come along with good walking shoes, protection against rain, cold or heat according to the season…. a bottle of water and a little « en-cas » to keep your stamina up ! Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up! Want to sign up? Easy as pie!Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone numbers (perferably cell phone) to this email address. You will be sent full details of the walk in due time. |
Take your TOEIC test
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The library is an authorised test center for the TOEIC Listening and Reading Test (the Test of English for International Communication). For more information please visit our TOEIC page or to sign up go to the official ETS website.
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Saturday Reading Group
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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. For this meeting, the group will read « Outlawed » by Anna North. « The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada’s life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.
She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she’s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. » Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org.
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The film club presents « The Grand Budapest Hotel »
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The film club presents a film in English once a month on a Saturday afternoon. This showing will be of Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Watch the trailer here. The film will be followed by a discussion in English. This activity is free and open to all library members.
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Book Club reads « Enter Ghost »
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The November read for the book club is « Enter Ghost » by Isabella Hammad. « Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost centers a West Bank production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Sonia, a Dutch Palestinian actress, leaves behind a messy relationship in London to visit her sister in Haifa, a city she hasn’t seen since childhood summers, and finds more than the emotional break she bargained for. » The Book Club is full for the 2024-2025 year. If you would like to join the waiting list, please send an e-mail to reception. We also invite you to consider joining Books and Tea or Saturday Reading Group!
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Reading Shakespeare
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Treat yourself to an afternoon of a collective reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays. This activity consists of watching a BBC production on DVD and then reading relative scenes. This is a great activity for lovers of language and fans of the great wit. Free and open to all library members. For more information or to sign-up, please contact the group coordinator here. The number of participants is limited. |
Garden Club visit at Terra Botanica
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On Thursday, October 24, meet at the entrance to Terra Botanica at 10am. The group will explore some of the highlights of the park in the morning, followed by lunch together at La Table du Roi René (a restaurant inside the park) at 11:30am. If 10am is too early for you, and you want to arrive just in time for lunch, you can meet the grup at the entrance to La Table du Roi René at 11:30. In the afternoon, you can visit all the things you didn’t get to in the morning. If you haven’t yet been to Terra Botanica, you will find that you can spend all day enjoying the plants, the decorations and the attractions, and perhaps still not see everything the park has to offer. (The park will be open from 10am-6pm this day.) During their autumn festival you will find fall decorations a-plenty and the staff will likely also be in Halloween costumes to add to the festivities. If you buy your ticket at the gate, it costs 24.00 euros. If you buy a dated ticket online within six days of your chosen date, it costs 20.50 euros. The least expensive ticket is 19.50 euros – purchased online, for a specific date, at least 7 days before the visit. Please send an email to me at GardenClubELLIA@yahoo.com no later than Sunday, October 6th to join. Please specify whether you will meet the group at 10:00am or at 11:30am. |
English Camp Collégiens – Fall 2024
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ENGLISH CAMP COLLÉGIENS Fall 2024 Stage ludique en anglais pendant les vacances scolaires ! 23, 24, 25 octobre, 14h à 17h Cet stage, encadré par des anglophones, s’adresse aux collégiens qui souhaitent améliorer leur compréhension et expression orale en anglais. Durant trois après-midis pendant les vacances scolaires, les collégiens peuvent pratiquer l’anglais dans une ambiance conviviale et découvrir qu’il est amusant de parler cette langue ! Programme :
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Book Club reads « Morality Play »
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The October read for the book club is « Morality Play » by Barry Unsworth. « The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time―and lessons for our own time―by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden winter. A small troupe of actors accompanied by Nicholas Barber, a young renegade priest, prepare to play the drama of their lives. Breaking the longstanding tradition of only performing religious plays, the groups leader, Martin, wants them to enact the murder that is foremost in the townspeoples minds. A young boy has been found dead, and a mute-and-deaf girl has been arrested and stands to be hanged for the murder. As members of the troupe delve deeper into the circumstances of the murder, they find themselves entering a political and class feud that may undo them. Intriguing and suspenseful, Morality Play is an exquisite work that captivates by its power, while opening up the distant past as new to the reader. » The Book Club is full for the 2024-2025 year. If you would like to join the waiting list, please send an e-mail to reception. We also invite you to consider joining Books and Tea or Saturday Reading Group!
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Walk and Talk
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Get on those hiking boots and take some time to revel in the great outdoors! The group « Walk and Talk » organises an easy walk once a month – approximately 10 km, 2 to 3 hours in the afternoon – in order to discover or re-discover the beautiful hiking paths of the Maine-et-Loire. Come along with good walking shoes, protection against rain, cold or heat according to the season…. a bottle of water and a little « en-cas » to keep your stamina up ! Maximum group is 20 so make sure to sign up! Want to sign up? Easy as pie!Sign up by sending your name, email address and phone numbers (perferably cell phone) to this email address. You will be sent full details of the walk in due time. |