French Guessing Game Podcast
To celebrate Kwizmas 😊, Kwiziq’s own little elves Aurélie and Céline have come up with this special “Petites Devinettes” podcast, where they’ll give you a series of fun riddles (en français bien sûr !) to guess Christmas-themed items and characters. And to help you practise your listening skills, this podcast will be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons, and interesting links to go further!
Bonnes devinettes de Noël ! 🔎🎄
🎧 Ready for some Christmas riddles?
In this podcast, you’ll have to find 5 items and characters typically associated with a French Christmas, so listen carefully to our cute “devinettes de Noël“!
Activez vos méninges et Joyeuses Fêtes ! 🎅🦌
🤗🧸 À vous de jouer !
Did you find all 5 answers? If not, how many did you get? Did you have fun?
Please share your (numbered) answers, as well as your feedback on the podcast, in the comments below et en français bien sûr! We can’t wait to read them all 🤶
❄️🔠 Your Christmas-y Vocabulary
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast to help you conduct your investigation:
- Bonnes Fêtes à tous ! = Happy Holidays everyone!
- une devinette = a riddle
- Activez vos méninges ! = Put on your thinking caps [lit. Make your brains working]!
- une aiguille = a needle
- une boule = a bauble
- une guirlande = tinsel
- un enfant sage = a well-behaved/nice child
- emballé.e = wrapped
- le ruban = ribbon
- un atelier = a workshop
- les bonshommes = little men
- dans la bonne humeur = in good spirits
- en forme de cylindre = cylinder-shaped
- un parfum = a flavour
- les marrons = chestnuts
- donner faim = to make [one] hungry
- numéroter [quelque chose] = to number [something]
☃️🗒️ Your Riddles Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. Il est vert et plein d’aiguilles. À Noël, on le décore avec des boules et des guirlandes multicolores.
2. Il a une grande barbe blanche, un costume rouge et des bottes noires. Le soir de Noël, il rend visite aux enfants sages.
3. À minuit le 24 décembre, ou le matin du 25, on les découvre sous le sapin, emballés dans du papier brillant et du ruban, pour la plus grande joie de tous.
4. Dans l’atelier du Père Noël, ces petits bonshommes fabriquent les jouets dans la bonne humeur.
5. C’est le dessert traditionnel de Noël en France. En forme de cylindre, ce dessert peut être à la crème ou glacé, et à différents parfums comme au chocolat, aux marrons ou même aux fruits ! Miam !
💪 And now for some grammar practice! Test yourself on the grammar points highlighted in the clues above with a curated Notebook of the following Kwiziq lessons:
- Using le/la/l’/les = it/him/her/them
- Colour descriptions change according to gender and number
- Expressing dates in French
- Conjugate regular -er verbs in the present tense in French
- Compound nouns formed with prepositions à/de/en in French
✨🗃️ The More The Merrier
Want to practise your French with similarly-themed exercises? Have a go at this festive Kwiziq selection:
- Bilingual Video Article – Bûche de Noël : recette (B2)
- Dictation Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Quel film pour Noël ? (B1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – At midnight (A1)
Not Premium yet? Now’s a great time to upgrade! You’ll get unlimited exercises, kwizzes and multiple notebooks to help you stay organised and make progress faster, plus Weekend Workouts exercises every week.
Don’t forget to share your answers with us in the comments!
Bonnes Fêtes les Kwizzers détectives !
Author info
For over ten years now, Céline has been teaching French and Italian to students of all ages and abilities in the UK. This French native speaker comes from Brittany, and likes crafts, Breton dance (of course!) and Breton music which she actually played for four years. She also has a fondness for European cinema and British History.
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!