Spanish Guessing Game Podcast
In our “¿Quién será?” podcast series, you’ll listen to KwizIQ teachers Inma and Silvia’s light-hearted chats in Spanish, where they give you a few key clues to help you guess which Spanish/Hispanic celebrity/figure they’re talking about.
To help you practise your listening skills, these podcasts will also be accompanied by useful vocab, grammar lessons and interesting links to explore further! We encourage you to try our related exercises to get the full experience.
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🎧 ¿Quién será? Ep.5 : Historical Figure 🎧
In this podcast, Silvia and Inma talk about a very famous Spanish/Hispanic figure. If you are a keen on Spanish/Hispanic history and know a bit about the most iconic figures from the history of Spain and Latin America, then those clues will be very helpful. You might guess who it is after just a couple of clues, but stick around until the end to be sure and get the full experience. It’s a great listening exercise!
📕 Some useful vocabulary
Here are some of the key words from the episode to help you get confident in this topic:
- personaje histórico = historical figure
- conocido/-a = well-known
- preparado/-a = ready
- ¡empezamos! = let’s begin!
- requerir = to require
- ¡desde luego! = of course!
- no pasa nada = it’s OK, no worries
- la forma de ver el mundo = way of seeing the world
- derrocar al gobierno = to to overthrow the government
- la Revolución cubana = the Cuban Revolution
- tener un nombre en mente = to have a name in mind
- ocupar un cargo en el gobierno = to hold a position in the government
- conformarse con algo = to settle for something
- capturado/-a = captured
- ejecutado/-a = executed
- convertirse en un símbolo = to become a symbol
- un retrato = portrait
- una boina = beret
- una estrella = star
🧩 Our 6 main clues
Here’s a line-up of the 6 main clues given in the podcast for a bit of help:
- Pista #1: Nació en Argentina y estudió Medicina antes de elegir un camino muy diferente.
- Pista #2: Un viaje por Sudamérica le hizo conocer la pobreza y despertó sus ideales políticos.
- Pista #3: Ayudó a Fidel Castro a derrocar al gobierno cubano durante la Revolución cubana de 1959.
- Pista #4: Después de la Revolución, ocupó importantes cargos en el gobierno de Cuba, pero más tarde se fue para apoyar otras revoluciones en diferentes países de Latinoamérica.
- Pista #5: Esta persona fue capturada y ejecutada en Bolivia en 1967, convirtiéndose en un símbolo de la Revolución en todo el mundo.
- Pista #6: Su famoso retrato, con una boina y una estrella, es una de las imágenes más reconocidas de la historia.
🧠 Interesting grammar from the text in our clues
We highlighted some interesting grammar points in our text from the six clues and created a shared notebook with all the lessons so you have them all in one place and ready for you to test.
✏️ Practise More!
Try these awesome KwizIQ activities to practice more on the topic history:
Reader:
● El dos de mayo de Goya (B2)
Fill-in-the-blanks:
● Fernando VI (A2 – preterite tense)
Dictation: (Premium subscribers only):
● Che Guevara(B2)
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Author info
After working in the travel industry for ten years in Seville, Inma moved to the UK to give a little twist to her life. Since then she's been teaching Spanish as a foreign language to adults for over 15 years in different settings, private lessons, secondary schools and online. Inma is a coffee lover and also loves exploring new places with her family in beautiful Warwickshire, where she lives.
Silvia is a multilingual educator with expertise in English, French, and Spanish, and a passion for helping students excel in language learning. After gaining extensive international teaching experience in the UK and other countries, Silvia returned to her hometown of Vitoria in 2019. Since then, she has been sharing her knowledge and love for languages with learners of all levels. With over a decade of experience, Silvia’s creative and dynamic teaching methods make language acquisition both fun and accessible.