Based on the last session I tried to find references for using ‘of,’ and was able to find some samples sentences, but none with much explanation for what Ozan was confused. I asked a few other TEFL classmates their idea on it, and overall we were strugging to develop a more in depth definition for that one- thankfully Ozan’s ambiguity tolerance is good and he accepted that it’s a word/phrase he’ll just have to get used to. Ozan’s weekly email had expressed working with comparative adjectives (-er/-est endings vs. more), so I brought in similar resources to the second session. First we went through the general explanation together and spent the majority of the time working with sample sentences, or I would give Ozan the original word and he had to show me the comparative adjective form (and sometimes vice versa). Later I had him write the opposite adjective to the one I wrote (i.e ‘harder’; ‘softer’) then gave him a practice quiz (from englishclub.com) where he had to select the correct adjective form. Ozan amazes me sometimes when he so quickly learns a topic he told me he’d been confused about before, but I guess the individual attention can truly have a greater impact than a classroom- I know I always learned better when one person actually explained sometime to me rather than trying to teach myself or listen when distracted in class.
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