Another way to have access to culture is

Hello everyone, I'm Stéphane Castanheira
as you might already know. I decided that
my pecha kucha would be about Culture
because I consider it as my biggest passion
1 after math.
press review on the Internet. Samuel
Etienne is a journalist at FranceInfo. Every
morning, he does a press review on the platform
Twitch. It's free,and available on demand. It's a
vibrant and lively way of getting informed.

As a child, I had this exact world map on

my wall. My siblings weren't often at home so These are not my only ways to feed my desire of
when I was alone, I used to take a pen and knowledge. I'm part of a debate group called
write down every country and their capital, Jeunes Debatteurs. It's an association that
continent by continent. That's how my passion organises weekly debates about politics. It's very
2 for culture began. lively, it trains me to retaliate in an argument.

What does it mean to be passionate for
culture? How do you train it? Do you even
train it? Well first, I go through culture by
reading newspapers, quite a lot actually.
3 I spend 2 to 3 hours a day reading the news.
However it is really overwhelming, you must be
tough,you must be strong minded because
people in polical debates won't be nice to you.
Though, you'll earn eloquence skills, confidence,
and you'll be rich of new opinions.

When you read newspapers, you should

pay attention to opinion diversity. I like Finally, I wanted to show you something I really
to read every kind of daily newspaper, like. It's the french TV show Question pour un
with all kind of political opinion, either champion hosted by Samuel Etienne which I
left wing or right wing. I think it is important to mentionned earlier. It's a culture game. 4
4 seek opposing political principles. candidates compete 3 rounds to win the game.

I show on this slide the newspapers

I read the most, from left to right. L'Humanité,
Libération,
Le Monde, Le Figaro, la Croix, le Parisien,
les Echos. I only read daily newspapers
because when you read the press everyday,
weekly papers only repeat what I already
5 know.
I'm part of a training club for this game in Paris. I
won a tournament this year, it was only for young
people because old people beat the hell out of
me in this game. I also won a tournament last year
based on this game, organised in the university.

I'm not only reading french newpapers. I'm

also reading BBC and its radio station. It's a The best way for you to feel what it's like to play
good media souce because BBC covers all the game at home, is to make you play right now!
current affairs from all around the world. I also I prepared few questions about your Pecha
listen to a german TV news called Tageschau Kuchas. You'll have 20 seconds to answer, first to
because I want to improve my German and I answer wins the question. No need to raise your
6 feel pretty close to Germany. hand, just say it out loud. Ready?
How do you read anewspaper? You might
think it costs me an arm and a leg to subscribe
to so many papers. Well not really because
you have access to mobile kiosk. Which
means, with your interrnet or phone In Leo's Pecha Kucha, he helped us pronounce a
subscription, you often have access to weird english word. How do you pronounce this
newspapers or you have a discounted price. word?

Another way of enhancing your culture is by

watching documentaries. I'm not a big fan
because most of the time they are really
boring, like you're watching it to go to sleep. In Antoine's Pecha Kucha, he told us robots that
Nevertheless, some of them are quite dynamic seem almost human but not enough look
and pleasant monstruous. What did he called this phenomena?

You can complement documentaries by going

in Museums. Last month, I learned some stuff
about Sumerian and Mesopotamia and It
makes me go the Louvre to discover about Keep on an eye on the slide for this one,
them. Basically it is the civilisation before the compared to the other english teacher, how much
Egyptians. does our teacher like e-Campus?

Let me give you example. What you all know is

that roman gods are the same as greek ones
only the name changes. However, the Greeks
copied the Egyptians who also copied the
Sumerians. For instance, the god of the
underworld is Pluto for the romans, Hades for What was the subject of Sacha's Pecha Kucha?
the Greeks, Anubis in Egypt, and Nergal for Well, I hope you enjoyed my Pecha Kucha, it was
the Sumerians. quite fun to make.