What does a YouTuber do? What do you think their usual day looks like? Would you like to become a YouTuber? Answer the questions in 60 to 80 words. Check your spelling when you are done.
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- Učenik nakon slušanja zvučnog zapisa o hrvatskom YouTuberu pokazuje razumijevanje rješavanjem zadataka dopunjavanja.
- Učenik u pisanju o svom budućem poslu koristi prvi i drugi kondicional.
1 YouTubers
2 PewDiePie
Watch the following YouTube video and answer the questions about the video. You can check your spelling with the check button.
3 A Croatian YouTuber
Listen to an interview with Marko Petković, a Croatian YouTuber.
While listening, fill in the missing information.
REPORTER: Today, we are talking to Marko Petković, also known as the Dark Den, a famous YouTuber from Koprivnica. Marko, how did you start your hobby?
MARKO: Well, since I was a kid, I have been collecting spiders and bugs around my house and it just turned into something more as I grew older.
REPORTER: How many animals do you have?
MARKO: It's a difficult question because the number constantly changes. I started only with tarantulas and then started collecting other exotic animals, like lizards, frogs, bugs, and centipedes. I think that I have around a 100 tarantulas and some 150 animals in total.
REPORTER: When did you do your first YouTube tarantula video?
MARKO: Well, I used to skate, and that's how I started filming and editing skating videos, so my first YouTube video was connected to skating. But my first tarantula video was filmed some four years ago when I got my first tarantula and filmed its first feeding. I was lucky that this video became viral and a lot of people started subscribing to my channel.
REPORTER: When you got serious about the videos, did you share three videos as you do now?
MARKO: No, I didn't have the time for that because I was working, so I only shared one video a week. I chose Friday in order to have the entire week for filming and editing.
REPORTER: What are your future plans?
MARKO: I needed to start my own company so that I could pay taxes, and I plan to use the company to produce and sell terrariums. I hope that, along with YouTube, they will be my source of income in the future. Maybe, if this does become my main source of income, I won't have time for filming videos as often as I do now. But if I could, I would employ somebody to help me because I know that my subscribers would be sad if I stopped posting videos.
REPORTER: How often do you feed your animals?
MARKO: Well, since I don't only have tarantulas, feeding time is almost every day. Although tarantulas eat only once a week, my bearded dragon eats three or four times a week, my hamster and my turtle eat every day, so I have to spend a lot of time with the animals. I also have to buy a lot of fruit and vegetables because Despasito, my bearded dragon, eats a lot of them. Eight, my turtle, loves lettuce so I need to buy it every day in order to give her fresh food. If I had the time, I would grow my own vegetables so that they could eat home-made food.
REPORTER: A lot of people are afraid of spiders and would never keep them as pets. Tell us, is it really that dangerous to keep tarantulas as pets?
MARKO: No, it really isn't. I have had them for more than five years and I can tell you that they are the best pets a person can have. They eat once a week and you need to change their water once a week, but there is no smell. They don't make a mess and you don't have to clean after them, so they are great pets for people who aren't at home a lot or who don't have much time to look after cats or dogs. Tarantulas are also not dangerous. If they bite, it's like a bee sting. That's what I have read because I have never been bitten by a tarantula, although I work with them on a daily basis. If I ever get bitten, I think that I won't even feel it.
4 The first and the second conditional
There are couple of examples of the first and second conditional in the interview with Marko Petković in the previous exercise. Listen to the interview one more time and complete the sentences.
REPORTER: Today, we are talking to Marko Petković, also known as the Dark Den, a famous YouTuber from Koprivnica. Marko, how did you start your hobby?
MARKO: Well, since I was a kid, I have been collecting spiders and bugs around my house and it just turned into something more as I grew older.
REPORTER: How many animals do you have?
MARKO: It's a difficult question because the number constantly changes. I started only with tarantulas and then started collecting other exotic animals, like lizards, frogs, bugs, and centipedes. I think that I have around a 100 tarantulas and some 150 animals in total.
REPORTER: When did you do your first YouTube tarantula video?
MARKO: Well, I used to skate, and that's how I started filming and editing skating videos, so my first YouTube video was connected to skating. But my first tarantula video was filmed some four years ago when I got my first tarantula and filmed its first feeding. I was lucky that this video became viral and a lot of people started subscribing to my channel.
REPORTER: When you got serious about the videos, did you share three videos as you do now?
MARKO: No, I didn't have the time for that because I was working, so I only shared one video a week. I chose Friday in order to have the entire week for filming and editing.
REPORTER: What are your future plans?
MARKO: I needed to start my own company so that I could pay taxes, and I plan to use the company to produce and sell terrariums. I hope that, along with YouTube, they will be my source of income in the future. Maybe, if this does become my main source of income, I won't have time for filming videos as often as I do now. But if I could, I would employ somebody to help me because I know that my subscribers would be sad if I stopped posting videos.
REPORTER: How often do you feed your animals?
MARKO: Well, since I don't only have tarantulas, feeding time is almost every day. Although tarantulas eat only once a week, my bearded dragon eats three or four times a week, my hamster and my turtle eat every day, so I have to spend a lot of time with the animals. I also have to buy a lot of fruit and vegetables because Despasito, my bearded dragon, eats a lot of them. Eight, my turtle, loves lettuce so I need to buy it every day in order to give her fresh food. If I had the time, I would grow my own vegetables so that they could eat home-made food.
REPORTER: A lot of people are afraid of spiders and would never keep them as pets. Tell us, is it really that dangerous to keep tarantulas as pets?
MARKO: No, it really isn't. I have had them for more than five years and I can tell you that they are the best pets a person can have. They eat once a week and you need to change their water once a week, but there is no smell. They don't make a mess and you don't have to clean after them, so they are great pets for people who aren't at home a lot or who don't have much time to look after cats or dogs. Tarantulas are also not dangerous. If they bite, it's like a bee sting. That's what I have read because I have never been bitten by a tarantula, although I work with them on a daily basis. If I ever get bitten, I think that I won't even feel it.
GRAMMAR FOCUS
| The First Conditional |
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| The first conditional has the present simple in the if-clause, and the future simple (WILL / WON'T PLUS INFINITIVE) in the main clause (this clause can stand alone, the if-clause can't): | |
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| If-clause | Main clause |
| if + present simple | will + infinitive |
| It's used to talk about things which might happen in the future. | |
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| When IF-CLAUSE is positioned in front of the MAIN CLAUSE, it is separated by a comma (inversion). | |
| The Second Conditional |
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| The second conditional has the past simple in the if-clause, and WOULD and the infinitive in the main clause: | |
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| If-clause | Main clause |
| if + past simple | would + infinitive |
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5 Past subjunctive
| We can use were instead of was with I and he/she/it. |
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| This is mostly done in formal writing and is called past subjunctive; |
| Past subjunctive is a term in traditional grammar in which were is used in a clause to express an unreal or hypothetical condition in the present, past, or future. |
| For example, "If I were you..." is a popular phrase used to describe an impossible imagined scenario in which the speaker is someone else. |
| Also known as the "were-subjunctive" and the "irrealis were," the past subjunctive differs from the past indicative only in the first- and third-person singular of the past tense of be. The past subjunctive is primarily used in subordinate clauses that begin with (as) if or though. |
Enter the correct form of the verb "to be".
6 The first conditional
Put the following sentences into the first conditional.
7 The second conditional
Choose the best option from the drop-down menu to put the sentences into the second conditional.
8 Conditionals in sentences
Fill in the empty places with the correct form of the verb. The sentences are in the first and the second conditional.
9 Writing
Write a dialogue between two friends talking about becoming bloggers or YouTubers.
Write at least 10 lines and try to use the first and the second conditional as in the sentences:
If I become a blogger/ If I become a YouTuber/ If I were you/ If I became rich, I wouldn't go to university.
Check your spelling when you are done.