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 our new podcast “Qui est-ce ?”! We (aka Céline and Aurélie) can’t wait for you to discover this new format 😊
Today, you’ll have to find a famous man of science, 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:
- un calepin = a notepad
- à partir de [quelque chose] = from/on the basis of [something]
- un indice = a clue/a hint
- dévoiler [quelque chose] = to reveal/unveil [something]
- un domaine = a field/domain
- révolutionner [quelque chose] = to revolutionise [something]
- un chimiste = a chemist
- un physicien = a physicist
- à l’époque de = at the time of
- donner son nom à [quelque chose] = to give one’s name to [something]
- un institut = an institute
- prouver [quelque chose] = to prove [something]
- ça se précise ! = we’re zeroing in/getting closer!
- le vaccin contre la rage = the rabies vaccine
- un procédé = a method
- conserver [quelque chose] = to preserve [something]
- la pasteurisation = pasteurisation
- à travers = through
- avoir hâte de [faire] = can’t wait to [do]
- une enquête = an investigation
🗒️🕵️♂️ Your Clue Notepad
1. C’est un chimiste et un physicien qui est devenu biologiste.
2. Il a vécu à l’époque de Napoléon III.
3. À Paris, il a donné son nom à une rue importante, un grand hôpital et un institut.
4. C’est le père de la microbiologie et il a prouvé l’existence des microbes.
5. Il est célèbre pour son travail sur la vaccination et il a développé le vaccin contre la rage.
6. Il a donné son nom à un procédé pour conserver les aliments : la pasteurisation.
🦾 Your Grammar Workout
Practise the grammar points highlighted in the clues above with this curated list of Kwiziq lessons:
- Conjugate mourir, naître, décéder, devenir, rester (+ être) in the compound past in French (Le Passé Composé)
- Conjugate vivre (+avoir) in the compound past in French (Le Passé Composé)
- Common mistakes with mon/ma/mes, ton/ta/tes and son/sa/ses (French Possessive Adjectives)
- Conjugate regular -er verbs (+ avoir) in the compound past in French (Le Passé Composé)
- Conjugate être in the present tense in French (Le Présent)
- Pour + [infinitive] = In order to + [do] in French
🗃️🔍 Investigate Further
Want to practise your French with similarly-themed exercises? Have a go at this amazing Kwiziq selection:
- Bilingual Video Article – Marie Curie (A2)
- Writing Challenge (Premium subscribers only) – In science class (A1)
- Gapfill – Conseils de prévention contre le coronavirus (A2 – L’Impératif)
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Don’t forget to share your findings with us in the comments!
À bientôt les Kwizzers !
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.