French Guessing Game Podcast
To celebrate Easter, Kwiziq’s own little chicks 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 Easter-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 Pâques ! 🔎🪺
🎧 Ready for some Easter riddles?
In this podcast, you’ll have to find 5 items and characters typically associated with Easter, so listen carefully to our cute “devinettes de Pâques“!
Activez vos méninges et Joyeuses Pâques ! 🐇🥚
🤗🔔 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 Easter-y Vocabulary
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast to help you conduct your investigation:
- Joyeuses Pâques ! = Happy Easter!
- plein(e) de = full of
- la renaissance = rebirth
- concocter [quelque chose] = to cook/whip [something] up
- une devinette = a riddle
- un calepin = a notepad
- une gourmandise = an (edible) sweet treat
- oval(e) = oval-shaped
- cacher [quelque chose] = to hide [something]
- Miam ! = Yummy!
- chocolaté(e) = chocolatey / chocolate-flavoured
- un indice = a clue
- un duvet tout doux = very soft down (bird)
- les cui-cui = tweets (bird)
- en forme de trompette = trumpet-shaped
- numéroter [quelque chose] = to number [something]
Proper Nouns
- Pâques = Easter
- Rome = Rome (Italy’s capital city)
- l’Italie = Italy
🍫🗒️ Your Riddles Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. Les enfants adorent ces gourmandises ovales à Pâques qui sont souvent cachées dans le jardin.
2. À Pâques, en France, elles viennent de Rome en Italie pour laisser des cadeaux chocolatés aux enfants.
3. Ils sont petits, jaunes, avec un duvet tout doux, et leurs cui-cui sont trop mignons !
4. Ces jolies fleurs jaunes en forme de trompette annoncent le début du printemps.
5. Cet adorable animal avec de longues oreilles aime les carottes, et distribue du chocolat aux enfants à Pâques.
💪 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:
- Qui = Who/which/that
- Conjugate venir/tenir and derivatives in the present tense in French
- Tout/tous/toute/toutes = Everything/all (of them)/whole/completely in French
- Conjugate semi-regular -cer verbs in the present tense in French
- “Des” becomes ” de/d’ ” in front of adjectives preceding nouns
🧺🗃️ The More The Merrier
Want to practise your French with similarly-themed exercises? Have a go at this festive Kwiziq selection:
- Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise – Décorations de Pâques (Vocabulaire) (A2)
- Dictation Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Choisir les chocolats de Pâques (A2)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Easter, a family celebration (B2)
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Don’t forget to share your answers with us in the comments!
Joyeuses Pâques 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!