[Kushla]

I am not a trained teacher, but as a native speaker living in a rural village in Germany, I have been hired to expose two sisters, aged 9 and 11, to English. The 11-year-old is capable of doing almost anything in English. She understands what I say, and she can comfortably say anything she wants to in English. Her younger sister, although she has had English in school, and by reading her school book I can see she has a good foundation in English, cannot understand me when I speak in English (I think she does if I slow the sentence down and just say two words at a time, so she has time to translate into her native tongue). She also usually can't say much in English. Both are willing to be with me for an hour a week, and they love games. The younger is sometimes bored because she can't understand, but if she is interested she really participates. The older is sometimes bored because the 'class' is too simple. As sisters, they have a lot of competition and the older is not interested in helping the younger. Any ideas for how to teach to two children at very different levels (beginner and intermediate)? And how to have a balance between games and other activities. I can speak a little German.