Unit 3: Standard of Living

• Lesson 1: Countries and Quality of Life
• Lesson 2: Future Plans
• Lesson 3: Jobs of the Future
• Lesson 4: Caring for Others
• Lesson 5: Presentation
• Lesson 6: Review
• Lesson 7: Conversation (Test)

By the end of this Unit, you will be able to:

• Share your opinion about factors that shape quality of life.
• Compare living standards in different countries.
• Understand and use idiomatic phrases.
• Compare life in the city and in the countryside.
• Discuss similarities and differences between life in Croatia and the USA.
• Express your views on poverty, wealth, unemployment, and social issues.
• Talk about your dreams, goals, and plans for the future.
• Describe what kind of job you want and where you would like to live.
• Compare the education systems in Croatia and the USA.
• Use vocabulary related to work, education, employers, and personal qualities.
• Share your opinion about good and bad employers and working conditions.
• Discuss positive and negative personal traits.
• Express your professional ambitions and the balance between work and free time.
• Identify professions of the past, present, and future.
• Express your opinion about which jobs technology and AI might replace.
• Compare different professions in terms of stability, pay, and security.
• Use and understand key vocabulary connected to work, technology, and the future.
• Discuss personal motivation, responsibility, freedom, and uncertainty in relation to jobs.
• Share your views on what the future of work could look like worldwide.
• Talk about caring for others and responsibilities in daily life.
• Discuss different types of volunteering and describe your own interests.
• Use vocabulary for common household chores and explain how they are shared among family members or roommates.
• Express opinions about family roles and helping parents, children, or elderly people.
• Compare traditions of helping and volunteering in Croatia and in your country.

To achieve these outcomes, you will learn/review the following grammar structures:

• Aspect pairs
• Present Conditional
• Conditional sentences
  • Conditional sentences to express wishes, possibilities, opinions, warnings, and questions.
• Should, would, and could
• Conditional clauses in Croatian: how to express conditions and results.
  • Real conditionals (possible situations)
  • Hypothetical conditionals (imagined situations)
  • Unreal conditionals (contrary to fact, impossible in the present or past)
• Present tense of verbs ending in –nuti
• Verbs ending in –ati that undergo consonant + j changes
• Noun changes in plural and locative forms: k, g, h → c, z, s

Vocabulary in this Unit relates to:

• Quality of life and living standards.
• Money, salaries, prices, and costs.
• Wealth, poverty, and unemployment.
• Differences between city and countryside life.
• Dreams, goals, and future plans.
• Jobs, careers, and working conditions.
• Education systems and types of study.
• Employers, employees, and workplace environment.
• Positive and negative personal qualities.
• Professions of the past, present, and future.
• Technology and artificial intelligence.
• Stability, security, and risk in the workplace.
• Motivation, responsibility, stress, and freedom at work.
• Expressions of uncertainty and possibility in relation to jobs.
• Caring for others and everyday responsibilities.
• Volunteering and community service.
• Family roles and helping elderly people, children, and neighbors.
• Common household chores and how they are shared.
• Environmental care and protecting nature.
• Hopes and trust for the future.