Module 1: Quality of Life

Kvaliteta života

• Lesson 1: Coffee Time
• Lesson 2: Just a Bite or Two
• Lesson 3: Dinner For Friends

Module 2: Online Shopping

Internet kupnja

• Lesson 1: My Cart
• Lesson 2: Travel Preparations

Module 3: Love Enters Through the Nose

Ljubav prolazi kroz želudac

• Lesson 1: Don’t Eat With Your Hands
• Lesson 2: Dinner Party
• Lesson 3: At a Restaurant

Module 4: 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:

• Name basic food and drinks.
• Talk about food items.
• Understand the names of typical dishes served in the area.
• Know more about traditional food and whether you would like to try it or not.
• Know food ingredients.
• Ask specific information about a certain dish.
• Do grocery shopping and buy necessary items/products.
• Discuss your eating habits and dietary needs.
• Talk about what you eat and drink.
• Discuss the food pyramid and healthy eating.
• Talk about allergies and food restrictions.
• Make arrangements for dinner plans.
• Order a meal in a restaurant, order coffee in a coffee shop.
• Place an order online or on the food delivery app.
• Understand different payment methods.
• Give comments/compliments about food.

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

• Present Tense
  • More about the verbs in -ći
• Verbal Aspect
  • Imperfective and perfective verbs
• Imperfective Verbs
  • Using imperfective verbs in the past, present of future tense
  • Repeated or regular actions
• Perfective Verbs
  • Using perfective verbs in the past, present of future tense
  • One-time action, emphasizing the completion
• Instrumental Case
  • More about the Instrumental Case
  • With and without the preposition s/sa
• Genitive Case
  • Nouns in the Genitive Case
  • Basic prepositions with the Genitive case
  • Quantifiers (puno/malo) with the Genitive case
• Irregular verbs
  • Jesti (to eat)
  • Piti (to drink)

Vocabulary covered in this Unit relates to:

• Fruits and vegetables
• Dairy products
• Spices and flavors
• Allergies and dietary needs
• Grocery shopping
• Traditional cuisine
• Kitchen utensils and dishes

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

Final assessment (Scenario):

Ordering food in a restaurant. Your instructor will play the role of a waiter and you will be a guest in a restaurant. You will use the menu that your instructor will give you for the dialogue. As the waiter shows you the menu, ask intelligent questions about dishes of your interest.

The role of a guest: You are in Croatia and you have decided to go out for dinner. You are not very familiar with the local food. Ideas for the dialogue:

• You will need to ask the waiter for some clarifications and recommendations.
• Mention your possible food allergies, ask more information about specific dishes of your interest.
• Ask about house recommendations on what to eat and drink at the restaurant.
• Give a compliment or make a comment on the food.
• Ask for the check and about payment methods.

Break the goal down into smaller learning targets.

• Module 1
  • I can talk about food items, eating habits, healthy living, and dietary needs.

• Module 2
  • I can do in-person or online shopping and buy necessary ingredients.
• Module 3
  • I can talk about food and necessary ingredients in a recipe.

• Module 4
  • Performance-based final unit assessment.

For each learning target (Modules 1-3), determine a concrete task that will demonstrate that the students have reached it.

• Module 1
  • In a dialogue, one of you will invite a friend and their family for dinner, the other one will have to present the eating habits of each family member. Be sure to include the following: express the idea that you want to have your friend and his/her family for dinner; say when you want to have them over; say that you want to know more about what they eat; ask about what they like to eat, do they have any allergies, and what they like to have for dessert. Finally, create a menu according to the information your friend provided.

• Module 2
  • Croatian food is based on meat and seafood. Your task is to: (a) search online for two traditional Croatian dishes. One dish has to be a meat dish and the other one has to be based on seafood or even a vegetarian dish; (b) search online for one traditional Croatian dessert recipe. Buy all the ingredients for chosen dishes. Calculate how much you will be spending on making the food.
• Module 3
  • Work with two other classmates. Create a Google Doc and enter the information for the following rubrics according to your likes: predjelo, prilog, glavno jelo, desert, piće. Each of you need to prepare something for dinner. Scenario: While at the dinner table, make a dialogue about food that you made/brought for dinner. Make comments about the food, ask about ingredients, give compliments. A person who brought/made specific food items should provide comments/answers.