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 fifth 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 4 comment 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 find out who the mysterious fashion designer is 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:
- être au taquet (exp.) = to be fired up / ready to go
- un domaine d’investigation = an area of investigation
- s’attaquer à [quelque chose] = to take [something] on
- la mode = fashion
- un indice = a clue
- un calepin = a notepad
- c’est parti ! = Here we go!
- un surnom = a nickname
- un enfant terrible (exp.) = lit. a terrible child, fig. a person whose unruly behaviour challenges conventions
- anticonformiste = nonconformist, unconventional
- un mannequin = a model (fashion)
- un défilé = a fashion show
- tatoué(e) = tattooed
- percé(e) = pierced (jewellery)
- avoir des formes = to have curves
- mélanger = to mix
- notamment = notably
- un costume de scène = a stage outfit
- légendaire = legendary
- un corset aux seins coniques = a conical-breast corset
- ça se précise ! = we’re zeroing in/getting closer!
- un flacon de parfum = a perfume bottle
- un buste d’homme/de femme = a man/woman’s torso
- une marinière = a sailor striped top with navy and white stripes
- une rayure = a stripe
- un homme-mystère = a mystery man
- une enquête = an investigation
Proper Nouns:
- l’Écosse = Scotland
- Le Cinquième Élement = The Fifth Element (1997 movie)
- Luc Besson (French movie director)
- Madonna (US singer)
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. Ce créateur français était surnommé “l’enfant terrible de la mode” en raison de son style audacieux et anticonformiste.
2. Il a choisi des mannequins atypiques pour ses défilés (personnes tatouées, percées ou avec des formes), car il croit que la beauté est partout.
3. Il aime mélanger les genres : il a été l’un des premiers à faire défiler des hommes en jupe.
4. Il a travaillé pour le cinéma, notamment sur le film de science-fiction “Le Cinquième Élément” de Luc Besson.
5. Il a aussi créé des costumes de scène légendaires pour des stars de la pop, comme le corset aux seins coniques de Madonna.
6. Ses parfums sont célèbres pour leurs flacons en forme de bustes d’homme et de femme.
7. Son vêtement fétiche, qu’il porte très souvent, est la marinière (un pull à rayures bleues et blanches).
💪 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:
- Conjugate être in the imperfect tense in French
- Conjugate regular -ir verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Faire + [infinitive] = to have something done in French (Causative)
- Forming adverbs from adjectives ending in -ant and -ent in French
- Conjugate regular -er verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Notre/nos/votre/vos/leur/leurs = our/your/their (French Possessive Adjectives)
- Que = Whom/which/that (French Relative Pronouns)
📔🕵️♀️ 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 fashion-themed exercises? Have a go at this shimmery Kwiziq selection:
- Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise – Le monde de la haute couture (Vocabulaire) (B1)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – Becoming a model (B1)
- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – Le défilé de mode Chanel (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.