You could have is an expression that gives a lot of problems to native French speakers.  They tend to want to translate it literally, Vous pouviez avoir, which means you had the possibility to have ??? And even when they learn to recognize and understand it, they hesitate to use it.

Here is a story I saw on the internet which gives all the repetition that we look for in a TPRS story, the repetition that students need to acquire a structure.  And it's funny, which makes it compelling input.  As ..

What are your favourite lesson starters? Let's pool our ideas here!