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I potentially have a student for after Christmas! My hairdresser recommended me to a client of his who is a monolingual francophone whose 11-year-old daughter is nervous about starting high school next year with very limited English, and wants to learn more (she's going to a French-language secondary school, but there'll be anglophone students there). She does get some English in school, but it's an hour and a half a week, which only goes so far. She's primarily looking for oral conversation skills, so that'll make life easier. They took down my rates and availability and will give me a call in January.

Super pumped and I'm looking into ESL teaching tools that'll be fun. I'm thinking playing "Guess Who" would be a good one, since you play it by describing the appearance of people, and it involves question and answer phrases that'll be good in terms of repetition to internalize the flow of word order in questions (and that in English, the adjective goes before the noun!). Playing "I'm going camping" would also be good - it will build vocabulary, and help internalize the structure of a list of items (though that's not hugely different between French and English.)

Any suggestions from the peanut gallery? The girls I taught last year had more English than this girl, so I'm starting from a more basic point.

Note to self: you need a haircut anyway. Call hairdresser and thank him and make an appointment.