case 1: try giving your student props on colourful paper, written in nice, big letters - props with key phrases you need her to use in appropriate tenses, and also add a list of words made like mind maps/word banks - e. g. props for shopping: Could you help me, please? / Do you have that in a bigger size? etc. with a word bank (you can call it a treasure chest if you wish) with words such as: expensive, narrow, fit, etc. - using colourful props sort of turns the conversation into a game and brings the adults back to the level of children, not in the linguistic sense, but breaks down the barriers and opens our mind up to learning in a relaxed environment. You can also knock on the desk or ring a chime when she makes a mistake, to warn her of her mistakes, but let her correct herself (don �t ring too often, ring only for the key things at first)... Rewards also help - to make her feel like a child, promise a reward for a successful speaking lesson - a small chocolate bar will work miracles:)

 

case 2: prepare a text written in a way she would write it (full of her type of mistakes) but about a favourite subject she has (e. g. her favourite singer, topic of interest, her favourite film...) - let her be the �teacher �, provide her with a red/purple pen and have her find mistakes in the text and underline and correct them - sometimes we see ohter people �s mistakes more easily than our own, and having them in red makes them more visible and we remember not to use those wrong phrases when we write ourselves... you might also use the original text and the �wrong � text and play �spot the difference � with her - tell her there are ten mistakes and she has to find them... I found that some of my students stopped making some mistakes when they saw them written in print and corrected them themselves...

 

I hope some of this helps!