Brittany TP 2

After meeting Ozan and establishing our testing focused cirriculum, I researched more TOEFL resources before our session. In addition, Ozan emailed me with a few grammar topics from class he didn’t understand: articles, prepositions, and relative pronouns (who/which/that), so I looked up some practice and helpful tips for those as well. I already had a few resources and sample sentences for learning articles and common prepositions from the grammar log the previous week, but for additional practice, particularly for the pronouns, I printed some helpful pages from englishclub.com (which I highly recommend!). We went through a general explanation of each topic, followed by 2-3 sample sentences that I guided him through, and ended each topic with several examples that Ozan did on his own. Given how smart Ozan is, with some specific explanation and walking through each sentence, he seems to understand the work. The only point he was still confused about was the word ‘of’ when discussing prepositions, and wanted to know a definition. I couldn’t think of a real meaning for the words to easily express, and tried looking at sample sentences, but realized I view it as a meaningless common word that I could only explain by saying that it generally comes before a word that gives extra detail to the rest of the sentence (for example ‘I carried a box of books.’) and more like that. Other than the few I could think of I was at a bit of a loss to explain and told Ozan I’d look into it for next time.