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 eighth 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 7 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 figure out who the French footballer (soccer player) 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:
- remercier [quelqu’un] = to thank [someone]
- un domaine d’investigation = an area of investigation
- s’attaquer à [quelque chose] = to take [something] on
- marquer [quelque chose] = to leave one’s mark on [something]
- un indice = a clue
- un calepin = a notepad
- être formé(e) = to be trained
- plein de [choses] = a lot of [things]
- la banlieue parisienne = the outskirts of Paris
- se réduire = to reduce [oneself] / to boil down to
- lors = during
- un transfert = a transfer
- c’est pareil = it’s the same
- s’y connaître = to know a lot about / to be knowledgeable
- tout à fait = absolutely / exactly
- marquer un triplé = to get a hat trick (score three goals in one game)
- un buteur = a striker
- à l’été 2024 = in the summer 2024
- suivre les actualités sportives = to follow sports news
- un exploit = an achievement
- À la prochaine fois ! = See you next time!
Proper Nouns:
- La Coupe du monde de football = Football/Soccer World Cup
- Clairefontaine (French city known for its football/soccer training centre)
- L’AS Monaco (famous football club)
- Bondy (French city in the Paris suburbs)
- Le Paris Saint-Germain – Le PSG (Paris’s main football/soccer club)
- L’Argentine = Argentina
- Le Real Madrid (prestigious Spanish football/soccer club)
- (Zinedine) Zidane (famous French footballer)
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad + Your Grammar Notebook
1. Ce joueur de foot a été formé à Clairefontaine, le célèbre centre d’excellence du football français.
2. Il a commencé sa carrière professionnelle à l’AS Monaco, où il est devenu le plus jeune joueur de l’histoire du club.
3. Il est né le 20 décembre 1998 et il a grandi à Bondy, en banlieue parisienne.
4. En 2017, il est devenu le deuxième joueur le plus cher de l’histoire du football lors de son transfert au Paris Saint-Germain.
5. Pendant la finale de la Coupe du monde 2022 contre l’Argentine, il a marqué un triplé historique, ce qui fait de lui le meilleur buteur de l’histoire des finales de Coupe du monde.
6. Après plusieurs années à Paris, il a rejoint le prestigieux club espagnol du Real Madrid à l’été 2024.
7. C’est l’actuel capitaine de l’équipe de France (en 2026) et il porte le numéro 10, comme Zidane avant lui.
💪 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 (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Conjugate mourir, naître, décéder, devenir, rester (+ être) in the compound past in French
- Conjugate regular -ir verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Ordinal numbers – 1st/2nd/10th/etc – in French
- Ce qui (vs ce que) = what/which (French Relative Pronouns)
- Conjugate -aindre, -eindre, -oindre verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French
- Conjugate regular -er verbs in the present tense in French
📔🕵️♀️ Your Exploratory Fill-in-the-Blanks exercise
SPOILER ALERT 🫣 If you’ve already guessed our mystery footballer 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 football-themed exercises? Have a go at this athletic Kwiziq selection:
- Reading exercise – Devant un match de foot (B2)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – At the football [US: soccer] game (B2)
- Dictée (Premium subscribers only) – Marseille’s football [US: soccer] club (A1)
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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.