On Saturday,
I did a little refresher course on prepositions with Divino. I reminded him,
that prepositions had many uses, and that one could not mention all of them in
one session, or even in several sessions. However, what I did with him was I
gave him a comprehensive list of prepositions as used in common phrases, which
I found in an English book for ESOL (and EFL) students. I had sample phrases
for the following prepositions (among other things): about, after, at, before,
between, beyond, by, for, etc. I asked him to look up each preposition in the
dictionary (and I did the same – I had brought a few different dictionaries) to
see and understand the different meanings before reading the examples. I wanted
him to get (and get it myself) a good sense of how the prepositions are used in
English. We discussed many of these sample sentences for a while to see, if he had
understood the meaning. I then had a couple of handouts with exercises covering
the prepositions we had discussed. He thought we had been pretty productive ;-)
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