This is an French TV commercial from the 80s for a kids toy called la Famille Ducoeur by Mattel. The commercial offers some basic vocabulary for the playground (l’aire de jeu). There are also some fun adjectives – épatant (marvelous) and rigolo (fun, amusing).
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Fun French TV commercial for Royal Canin dog food from the 1980s. Lots of interesting grammar usage here including usage of the infinitive mood, savoir vs. connaître and well as indirect object pronouns. Oh, by the day, the dog in the commercial is very cool!
This is a vintage 80s French TV commercial for Scotch VHS video cassettes – outdated technology! The commercial suggests that the tapes are guaranteed for life and that the colors never fade. Two fun words used: enregistrement (recording) and s’altérer (to deteriorate)
This is a fun, short commercial for a kids snack called BN Gâteau from the 1980s. The commercial is very short but makes use of lots of interesting grammar including the futur proche and indefinite relative pronoun ce que.
This is an early-1990s French Canadian commercial for a cleaning product called Hetel Plus. The commercial continuously repeats “plus propre, plus vite”, cleaner, faster. Lots of cleaning vocabulary here: essuyer (to wipe), la tache (stain), rincer (to rinse) and much more.
This is a 1980s French-Canadian commercial for Mont Tremblant, a ski area near Montreal. The ad consists of a narrator listing vocabulary related to a ski mountains various departments – ski school, food and beverage, etc. For skiers the video offers some great vintage 80s images.
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