Unit 6: The Role of Media

• Lesson 1: Blog / Vlog
• Lesson 2: Internet
• Lesson 3: Online Job Market
• Lesson 4: Source of Information
• Lesson 5: Media Landscape
• Lesson 6: Presentation
• Lesson 7: Review
• Lesson 8: Conversation (Test)

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

• Discuss blogs and vlogs, their role and importance in society.
• Describe your internet habits and preferences.
• Talk about influencers and their work.
• Share your interests in online reading and recommend online sources.
• Explain the role of the internet in daily life and discuss its advantages and disadvantages.
• Talk about internet safety and the precautions one should take online.
• Discuss what the internet enables us to do and how important it is in modern life.
• Describe online jobs, including their benefits, challenges, and future prospects.
• Express your personal characteristics and interests related to remote work.
• List and describe the skills needed for online jobs.
• Talk about your dream job and the characteristics of a good employer/employee.
• Compare generational differences in internet usage and remote work.
• Express unreal and hypothetical situations.
• Discuss online vs. print media and your news-reading habits.
• Talk about types of news articles, tabloid journalism, and gossip culture.
• Explain how to distinguish between real and fake news.
• Identify categories of news in newspapers and online portals.
• Describe the characteristics of a good journalist.
• Share your favorite online media sources and discuss Croatian news portals.
• Talk about TV series and films, including your watching habits and preferences.
• Discuss different types of TV shows, radio programs, and streaming platforms.
• Express your opinions on entertainment sources, including films and series.
• Talk about the importance of TV shows in Croatian culture.
• Discuss famous TV shows from your country and how they have changed over time.

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

• Present Tense of -ati verbs in Croatian.
• Verbs ending in -ovati, -evati, -ivati and their conjugation patterns.
• Perfective and imperfective verbs: understanding verbal aspects.
• The verbal noun: formation and usage.
• Expressing possibility and obligation: should, would, could in Croatian.
• Conditional clauses and their structure.
• Hypothetical conditional clauses for imagined or possible situations.
• Unreal conditional clauses for contrary-to-fact situations.

Vocabulary covered in this Unit relates to:

• Digital media terminology to discuss blogs, vlogs, and influencers.
• Internet-related vocabulary to talk about habits, online reading, and daily use.
• Cybersecurity terms for discussing internet safety and online risks.
• Work and employment vocabulary related to online jobs, remote work, and career skills.
• Business and professional terminology for talking about employers, employees, and work characteristics.
• News and media vocabulary to describe online and print journalism, article types, and fake news.
• Entertainment-related terms for discussing TV shows, movies, and streaming services.
• Generational and societal terms to compare internet usage across different age groups.