Module 1: The City of My Childhood

Grad moje mladosti

• Lesson 1: My Apartment
• Lesson 2: Accommodation
• Lesson 3: IKEA Shopping
• Lesson 4: Where Do You Live?
• Lesson 5: My Roommate

Module 2: More About My Country

Više o mojoj zemlji

• Lesson 1: How Was It?
• Lesson 2: More About (My) Country
• Lesson 3: Are You Alive?

Module 3: Practice Makes Perfect

Ponavljanje je majka znanja

• Lesson 1: Review
• Lesson 2: Conversation (Test)

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

• Talk about where you live
• Describe your apartment/house
• Describe where things are in your apartment
• Provide opinions about apartments and living arrangements
• Discuss housing preferences
• Search online for an apartment in Croatia
• Express your preference in living arrangements
• Understand traditional architectural concepts in the area
• Understand traditional (most common) apartment arrangements in Croatia
• Talk about your geographical preferences for your living environment
• Talk about your favorite trip in the past
• Talk about past experiences
• Talk about student living situation in Croatia and your country
• Express your opinion about student dorms in Croatia and your country
• Shop online for furniture
• Discuss popular landmarks in Croatia and other countries in the region
• Discuss and ask about famous people in Croatia and the region
• Express your present (academic) interests and future plans for research
• Talk about months and seasons
• Express your desires for future travels
• Talk about what you want to visit in the region and provide reasons for it
• Understand how to communicate in a formal/informal way via email

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

• Locative case
  • Regular forms
  • Irregularities in form (sound changes)
• Prepositions with the locative case
  • u/na (in/on)
  • o/po (about/accross)
• Adjectives in the locative case
  • Singular forms
  • Plural forms
• Present Tense of -ati verbs
  • Irregular forms
• Past Tense
  • The verb biti (to be)
  • Verbs in: -ati, -iti, and -jeti
  • Verbs in: -ći
• Ordinal numbers
• The noun doba

Vocabulary covered in this Unit relates to:

• Type of living environment
• Seasons and months
• Housing and furniture
• Online platforms for furniture shopping
• Floorplans
• Tourist attractions and landmarks
• Activities when traveling
• Activities during free time
• Geography

At/by the end of the unit, what do you want the students to be able to do with the language?

Final assessment (Scenario):

You are an international student who is renting a room in an apartment with a local student. While you get to know each other, you will develop a dialogue in which you might be asked to:

• compare the local housing with the one in the US,
• provide opinion about your current apartment in which you are renting a room,
• demonstrate your knowledge of the area,
• get to know your new roommate better and talk about past, happy memories,
• talk about past trips, or some specific experience that you had
• finish the dialogue with an invitation to do something together like see a movie or go to a cafe (based on the information that you collect during the dialogue).

Break the goal down into smaller learning targets.

• Module 1
  • I can talk about my apartment/house and furniture items.

• Module 2
  • I can talk about my past experiences.

• Module 3
  • Performance based final-unit assessment.

For each learning target (Modules 1-2), determine a concrete task that will demonstrate that the students have reached it.

• Module 1
  • You are spending a semester in Croatia. You are sharing an apartment with another student. Make a cohesive dialogue by introducing yourself, make comments about the apartment, and negotiate where you will put all the furniture.

• Module 2
  • You meet with your friend and you want to tell each other about an interesting evening you had in the past. The task needs to include your past activities, opinions about the evening, and suggestions for future activities as a result of that past event.