[michèle 2]

Hi,
I teach private lessons too (in France). I usually start teaching vocabulary using flash cards and the present continuous so that my students can describe a picture or answering my questions.
what's the boy / the girl / poeple doing here ...
they need to learn a lot of verbs to be able to describe people in various situations and flash cards are very useful. Learning prepositions is also an important point, then they can say where the objects, animals, people are ( using the same picture).
Hope that helps
Michèle