French Guessing Game Podcast
In this “Qui est-ce ?” podcast series, KwizIQ’s own super detectives Aurélie and Céline will test your investigative skills as they give you clues (en français bien sûr !) to guess a famous Francophone personality. And to help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will be accompanied by some useful vocab, grammar lessons, and interesting links to go further! Bonne enquête !
🎧 Ready to investigate? À vos calepins !
Welcome to the tenth episode of our podcast “Qui est-ce ?”! As usual, we (aka Céline and Aurélie) wish to thank all our wonderful Kwizzers détectives for your contributions to the episode 9 comments section 😍 Don’t forget that we will give you all a special shout-out by name in this very episode!👂😊
Today, you’ll have to figure out who the French wine celebrity is by listening to our specially crafted clues 🍾🧐
🤗 À vous de jouer !
Did you guess who we were talking about? How hard did you find it? How many clues did it take you to get it right?
Please let us know in the comments below, en français bien sûr ! We can’t wait to read you all 🤓
🔠🔎 Your Investigative Vocabulary
Here’s some useful vocabulary featured in this podcast to help you conduct your investigation:
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. C’est une femme d’affaires française visionnaire, née à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.
2. Elle est devenue veuve à seulement 27 ans, à une époque où le Code civil interdisait aux femmes de travailler sans l’accord d’un mari.
3. Elle a repris la direction de l’entreprise familiale de son défunt mari et elle a développé son commerce à l’international.
4. C’est une grande innovatrice : elle a inventé en 1816 la “table de remuage”, une technique révolutionnaire pour obtenir un vin parfaitement clair et limpide.
5. On lui doit aussi la création du premier champagne millésimé en 1810.
6. En raison de son succès dans un monde d’hommes, on l’a surnommée “La Grande Dame de la Champagne”.
7. Aujourd’hui encore, les bouteilles de sa marque se reconnaissent facilement grâce à leur fameuse étiquette jaune-orangé.
8. Son nom de jeune fille est Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, mais le monde entier la connaît sous le nom de la Veuve…
💪 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:
- Adjectives of nationalities vary depending on gender in French
- Conjugate mourir, naître, décéder, devenir, rester (+ être) in the compound past in French
- Où can mean where AND when
- Conjugate prendre and derivatives (+avoir) in the compound past in French
- Conjugate regular -er verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Using lui/leur = him or her/them (French Indirect Object Pronouns)
- Using le/la/l’/les = it/him/her/them (French Direct Object Pronouns)
- Special cases when the past participle agrees (in number & gender) when used with ‘avoir’ in the compound past in French
- Notre / nos / votre / vos / leur / leurs = our / your / their
- Conjugate connaître/paraître and derivatives in the present tense in French
📔🕵️♀️ Your Exploratory Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise
SPOILER ALERT 🫣 If you’ve already guessed our mystery person and want to learn more about them, enjoy this exclusive Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise testing a mix of A1 to B1 French conjugation lessons.
🗃️🔍 Investigate Further
Want to practise your French with wine-themed exercises? Have a go at this interesting KwizIQ selection:
- Bilingual Article – Quiz – Connaissez-vous bien le vin ? (B1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – The Alsace wine route (B2)
- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – La Fête des Vendanges de Montmartre (B2)
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Don’t forget to share your findings with us in the comments!
À bientôt les Kwizzers détectives !
Author info
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!
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.