Commercials

This is a French TV commercial for frozen candy bars from 2013. The commercial features a beautiful woman sitting on the beach enjoying a frozen Mars bar with a man dressed as an angel begging her to share. The commercial makes great use of ‘ce n’est pas bien de + infinitive’, which means ‘it’s not …

This is a public service message from the French Ministry of Health regarding the latest do’s and don’ts relating to Covid 19. The No. 1 highlight from this video is the use of reciprocal pronominal verbs, things we do to each other. The video’s speech is easy to listen to and slow. See how much …

This is a wonderful vintage French TV commercial for the Renault 4 Chevaux (4CV). This was a popular car in France during the 1950s. In addition to showing some fun views of Paris, the commercial offers a ton of car vocabulary, such as “le volant” (steering wheel) and verbs such as “garer” to park. The …

This is a fun vintage French-Canadian (Québecois) commercial from the 1970s for Ski-Doo snowmobiles. The commercial is packed with lots of fun vocabulary and grammar, for example “auto-neige” meaning snowmobile. Other points of interest are usage of the word même, indirect object pronoun en, usage of the preposition chez and much more.

This is a car ad for the Nissan Pulsar NX from 1988. It’s pretty fun to see the man and woman’s style as well as the old style car phone. This ad is short but there’s a lot going on grammatically. There’s good use of how to say the year 1988, usage of the demonstrative …

This a vintage French TV commercial from the 1970s for women’s shoes. The commercial plays on the theme of the women’s rights movement of that time period. If you did deep there’s lots of great basic grammar in this ad including direct object pronouns, usage of the preposition chez and much more.