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A course book is good as a back up or to a guideline, but one-to-one teaching actually becomes the student's story, the student's needs and a teacher has to make sure that the lessons satisfy the latter. Without losing focus on the goal - which could be a language test or a presentation which the student needs to make. My experience of one to one is that the learner is the resource and comes to see the teacher as a co-explorer of the language. Never use coursebooks, don't focus on grammar for its own sake but use storytelling as the means of exploring how to express ideas accurately. That means transmitting ideas in such a way that the receiver forms a very closely similar mental picture of the story to that of the teller. Everyone has a story to tell and will be much more interested and motivated to discuss what is important to them rather than a topic arbitrarily chosen by a teacher of a textbook writer.
You soon begin to "feel" what level of intimacy the learner finds comfortable and acceptable.
Always give the learner a list of points that have been covered during the lesson as it is not always apparent to them what they have practiced if you have been leading them in a "natural" way of aquiring language.
