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 third episode of our podcast “Qui est-ce ?”! Once again, we (aka Céline and Aurélie) were overwhelmed by your amazing contributions to the episode 2 comment section. And to show our appreciation to all our fantastic Kwizzers détectives, we’re introducing a “shout out” segment at the end of our podcast, so listen until the end to hear us thank you by name! 😊
Today, it’s a famous woman with culinary skills you’ll have to find by listening to our specially crafted clues 🧐
🤗 À vous de jouer !
Did you guess who we’re 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:
- en tous cas = in any case
- être reconnaissant(e) de [quelque chose] = to be grateful for [something]
- un domaine d’investigation = an area of investigation
- s’attaquer à [quelque chose] = to take [something] on
- il s’agit de … = it’s about…
- un indice = clue
- un calepin = a notepad
- réputé(e) = renowned, with a good reputation
- à plusieurs reprises = on several occasions
- une émission = a program (TV/radio)
- une cheffe = a female chef
- une épreuve = a trial
- un livre de recettes = a recipe book
- rigolo(te) = funny
- pas mal = not bad
- une seule = only one
- on y est presque = we’re almost there
- et justement = and speaking of
- un “coucou” = a “hello” / a wave
Proper Nouns:
- Top Chef (French cooking competition TV show)
- Le Guide Michelin (prestigious French culinary guidebook awarding stars to the best restaurants in the world)
- Dubaï, Hong-Kong, Lausanne (en Suisse) (international cities – and country)
- “La Maison Pic” (name of her main restaurant)
- Valence (city in southeastern France)
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. C’est une femme célèbre dans le monde de la gastronomie française, ce qui est plutôt rare.
2. Elle vient d’une famille de cuisiniers très réputés, et elle a continué la tradition familiale.
3. Elle a participé à plusieurs reprises à l’émission “Top Chef”, comme juge invitée ou cheffe pour une épreuve.
4. Elle a publié une collection très populaire de livres de recettes appelée “SCOOK”, une contraction de “School” et “Cook”.
5. C’est la seule femme cheffe française à avoir reçu trois étoiles au guide Michelin.
6. Elle possède plusieurs restaurants autour du monde, notamment à Dubaï, Hong-Kong et Lausanne en Suisse.
7. Son restaurant historique et principal se situe à Valence et s’appelle “La Maison Pic”.
💪 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:
- Ce qui (vs ce que) = what/which
- Conjugate venir/tenir and derivatives in the present tense in French
- Expressing quantities in French with quelques/plusieurs/de nombreux = A few/several/many
- Conjugate regular -er verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Adjectives of nationalities vary depending on gender in French
- Conjugate -é(-)er, -e(-)er verbs – except -eter and -eler – in the present tense in French
- Conjugate reflexive verbs in the present tense in French
📔🕵️♀️ NEW: Exploratory Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise
SPOILER ALERT 🫣 If you’ve already guessed our mystery personality and want to learn more about them, enjoy this exclusive Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise testing a mix of A1 to B1 French grammar lessons.
🗃️🔍 Investigate Further
Want to practise your French with gastronomy-themed exercises? Have a go at this amazing Kwiziq selection:
- Dictée Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Picking a restaurant (A1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – I miss French food! (B1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – French kids don’t throw food? (C1)
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 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.