Unit 4: Artificial intelligence 

• Lesson 1: The History of AI
• Lesson 2: Technological Development
• Lesson 3: Social Media
• Lesson 4: The Virtual World
• Lesson 5: Presentation
• Lesson 6: Review
• Lesson 7: Conversation (Test)

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

• Share your opinions about artificial intelligence and its role in everyday life.
• Talk about advantages and disadvantages of AI.
• Recognize important milestones in the history of AI.
• Understand and use key vocabulary connected to AI and smart devices.
• Discuss how AI is used in different fields such as health, education, and work.
• Express your personal attitudes, concerns, or hopes about the future of AI.
• Share your opinions about different types of transportation and how people travel.
• Understand and discuss important inventions and discoveries that changed the world.
• Talk about your use of social media and compare it with other people’s habits.
• Express opinions about influencers and their role in digital culture.
• Compare how different generations (Millennials, Gen Z, Boomers, etc.).
• Recognize and use Croatian internet slang, Anglicism, and abbreviations.
• Share your opinions about technology and its impact on everyday life.
• Discuss online safety, privacy, and risks such as addiction and cyberbullying.
• Talk about advantages and disadvantages of social media.
• Describe young people’s relationship with technology using real-life examples.
• Understand and discuss psychological, social, and legal challenges of new technologies.
• Write a formal email in Croatian; choose an appropriate greeting and closing based on the recipient and the level of formality.

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

• Passive voice in the past tense (formation and usage)
• Time expressions with years and historical events
• Writing and saying dates in Croatian
• Using ordinal numbers with dates
• Genitive forms of months
• How to say and write years
• Feminine nouns ending in –ost and other consonant-ending feminine nouns

Vocabulary in this unit relates to:

• Artificial intelligence and technology
• Important milestones in AI history.
• Smart devices in everyday life.
• Advantages and disadvantages of AI.
• Opinions, attitudes, and concerns about the future of technology.
• Different types of transportation and ways of traveling.
• Buying tickets and planning trips.
• Important inventions and discoveries that changed the world.
• Everyday technology used for getting around.
• Social media platforms and their features.
• Online actions and habits.
• Digital culture and influencers.
• Generational differences in media use.
• Internet slang and abbreviations.
• The virtual world and online life
• Internet privacy and safety.
• Influence of social media on teenagers.
• New AI technologies.