Module 1: I Wish You All the Best!

Sve najbolje ti želim!

• Lesson 1: Happy Birthday!
• Lesson 2: Holidays In My Country

Module 2: New Year’s Holidays

Novogodišnji praznici

• Lesson 1: Plans For Holidays
• Lesson 2: Merry Christmas
• Lesson 3: Plans For New Year’s Eve
• Lesson 4: Advent In Zagreb
• Lesson 5: Happy New Year! 

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:

• Discuss religious, national, and commercial holidays
• Talk about your birthday and ways you celebrate
• Talk about horoscope signs and general personal traits
• Talk about holiday traditions in your country and in the B/C/M/S area
• Talk about your favorite holiday(s)
• Talk about winter sports and activities
• Express your desires on what to do for the holidays
• Compare holiday traditions between your country and the B/C/M/S area
• Express your knowledge on holiday dates
• Invite your friend to spend the holidays together
• Understand the unwritten rules and traditions about house visits in the B/C/M/S area
• Know what to bring when visiting someone’s home in the B/C/M/S area
• How to give a toast in Croatian
• Express your good wishes for friends in Croatian
• Get ideas on what places to visit for New Year’s Eve celebrations
• Understand the types of events around Christmastime in Croatia
• Understand types of events happening in the B/C/M/S area for New Year’s Eve
• Write a holiday and birthday card/email to your friends in Croatian

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

• Present tense
  • irregular verb forms of the verbs in -ati group
  • sound changes in the conjugation pattern
  • more about -ći verbs
• Possessive adjectives
  • irregular forms
  • word stem sound changes
• Genitive case
  • with ordinal numbers
  • with months
  • prepositions indicating the meaning “from-to”
• Present tense of verbs expressing things you want, wishes, celebrations
  • irregular forms
• The noun “hour” (sat)
  • irregularity in plural form
• Dative case
  • personal pronouns

Vocabulary covered in this Unit relates to:

• Types of calendars
• Religious holidays in the B/C/M/S area
• Occasions and events
• Gifts and souvenirs
• New Year’s Eve celebration
• Traditional beliefs
• Holiday activities
• Greetings and toasts
• Horoscope signs and personal traits
• Landmarks and architectural style
• Winter sports

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 studying in Croatia during the Fall semester. You might be assigned one of the following two situations:

• You will go home for Christmas/New Year’s Eve.
• You will not go home during the holidays.

Create a dialogue about your winter break, what are you planning to do, where you want to go, and what you plan to see. When you come to the part where you discuss specific holidays, be sure to compare what you have learned about holidays in Croatia and your country. Be sure the dialogue goes both ways and that you are not only answering questions. No matter what role you were assigned, you could still potentially invite your friend to spend the holidays with you.This will all depend on what your instructor says during your discussion. Finally, think of local traditions and phrases that appeared throughout the unit and try to use them in your dialogue.

Break the goal down into smaller learning targets.

• Module 1
  • I can talk about my birthday and holidays in general.

• Module 2
  • I can talk about my plans for the holidays.

• 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
  • One of your local friends is having a birthday soon. Your local friend is still not sure what to do and who to invite. Discuss the plans and give suggestions on what you could do together. Be careful on dates, as it will trigger what else you could do during that birthday week.

• Module 2
  • Table conversation. You and your friend are making plans for New Year’s Eve. Where will you celebrate New Year’s Eve? Follow the dialogues in this module to get more ideas for your own dialogue.