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. |
Intensive English workshop for “collégiens”
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“Ski, Snow and Surf” is a 3-day English-learning workshop for collégiens. Participants learn English in a fun, interactive way with games, songs and activities with lots of talking and moving around! The workshop will be at the library for three consecutive afternoons of three hours each, from 2 to 5 p.m. Please contact the front desk to sign up by phone: 02 41 24 97 07 or email: info@ellia.org. Limited to 15 participants so sign-up fast! Cost is 75 euros (includes snack, materials and library membership). |
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. ______________________________________________________ |
Book Club reads “The Secret Life Of Bees”
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The February read for the book club is “The Secret Life Of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd. “When Lily’s fierce-hearted “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds refuge in their mesmerizing world of bees, honey, and the Black Madonna.” To join the book club please send an email to the group coordinator here.
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Garden Club Annual Planning Meeting
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The annual planning meeting of the Garden Club will take place in the library on Thursday, February 15 at 11am.
It is during this meeting that the year’s visits are determined. Please come with lots of ideas for places that we could visit this year.
Lunch reservations will be made for 12:30, after the meeting, at La Gogane (next to the library) for anyone who is interested. Here is their lunch menu.
If you would like to join for lunch, please send an email to GardenClubEllia@Yahoo.com no later than February 1st.
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Bridge Club
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Come and play (simple) Bridge (cardgame) at the library! Engage in a brain-stimulating sport: the Mini Bridge Exclusive Society. Discover, learn and play Mini Bridge in a relaxed, casual and informal ambiance. Mini Bridge, as developed by MBES allows and encourages
…in a nutshell, MBES (Mini Bridge Exclusive Society) proposes a different concept from the competing conventional Bridge Clubs. Feel free to sign up and come and discover this new activity for library members! It is free and open to members of the library. Please contact the library to join! |
Pizza and board games
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Join us for our ever-popular game night and pizza party! Cost is 7 euros (covers pizza and non-alcoholic drinks, 5 euros for native English speakers and children under 13). Event starts at 6 pm sharp. Last entry at 6:15 pm. First come, first serve with 40 participants max. Children under 13 need to be accompanied by an adult. |
Luncheon Club
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Do you love French food and restaurants? Would you like to speak English more, but in a relaxed environment? Join the Luncheon Club! Enjoy a meal and great conversation in English once a month at a local restaurant. This activity is open to library members. Spaces are limited. For more information or to sign up, please contact the group coordinator here.
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The film club presents “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
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The film club presents a film in English once a month on a Saturday afternoon. This showing will be of Girl with a Pearl Earring, a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber from a screenplay by Olivia Hetreed, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, Essie Davis, and Judy Parfitt. Watch the trailer here. Screening begins at 3 o’clock sharp and will be followed by a discussion in English. This activity is free and open to all library members.
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Presentation on Angers’ Sister Cities
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Did you know that the city of Angers has 10 different twin towns spread throughout the world? Every year the city hosts three young people to serve as “ambassadors” to live in Angers for the year, working for the city to foster partnerships and to share their culture with local Angevins. On February 9th, our three ambassadors : David Tristan of Valencia, Spain, Caroline Wielage of Osnabrück, Germany, and Emily Persons of Austin, Texas will each give a short presentation about their hometowns with time for a question and answers afterwards. |