Degree of Comparison

Familiar with degree of comparison

Teaching is a process of distributing knowledge. It can be successfully if the major goal taught is mastered by the learners . The way of teaching degree of comparison means that how the degree of Comparison knowledge is understandable.

Indonesian new English teacher often find difficulty to bring the lesson to his or her students. Don’t you know why? Because the way of teaching degree of comparison runs ineffectively or ambiguous. Therefore, their English teaching program is failure.

In accordance with the problems above, writer tries to offer Indonesian new English teacher packing their English lesson more attractively and easy to follow. Writer will provide them with briefly strategy. Three main points are illustrated below, please take a bit time to comprehend.

Degree of comparison is a level of thing, animal or people are compared according to the characteristic that their specifically have. There are two characteristics that the teacher can get. they are adjective and adverb of the subjects.

Be closely with the degree of comparison

When I was a new English teacher at The Junior High School , I commonly started the lesson with certain rule. With high motivation burned I forced my students to recall all the rule based on my lesson destination. I did it every time I taught them in all classroom that I was in. In teaching learning activity, I wrote troublesome that I found in piece of paper.

Based on the observation, I found that the students felt sleepy and sleepy, went the rest room and disturbed one another. If it happened continuously, I could not imagine how poor my English teaching was. Finally, I tried to use the new strategy. here are the steps that I apply:

Pre teaching

Before beginning the teaching process, attract students to use visual pictures concern with the topic that you teach. For example; 3 students in different height, 3 books with different total pages in each.

Process

1. Explains the adjective or adverb for the subject that comparing
2. Count number of syllable that the subject has
3. Write the sentences based on the degree of the subject. Remember! teacher must introduces them with : affirmative, comparative and superlative sentence.

Closing

1. Ask one or two students to write the degree of comparison sentence in the board.
2. Conclude students work. Then, tell them the result.

Best conclusion

In order to have a real students’ achievement of the objective, the teacher must give them assignment that they do. Teacher gives two to five easy and different types of regular and irregular adjective or adverb. Remember, Teacher must give a clear instruction before the students do their task. At the end of their work, teacher must scores their work. Then, report the score to them.