What’s that lexicon basics you really need to start with?

I’m a private language tutor, but i rarely had an experience with foreign beginners. Like adult tabula rasa beginners. Now more and more people want to start learning a language with me, but their main focus is to start speaking as fast as possible. And I usually tend to start with one of those university course strategies, where you begin with simple topics like fruits, vegetables, colors, appearance etc, that are not really useful in everyday conversations. But at the same time I do not want to overcomplicate things. Maybe you have some advice about which topics to start with? Or an example of language workbook that gets this things just right? For my language there are not a lot of materials to choose from, so I often improvise, combine different books, create some exercises and vocabulary sets myself.

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