Try another approach. One of my first lessons was in my Dad's new K reg Cortina when i was 10. Before he'd let me drive i had to master the clutch, so on a slight incline he taught me to give the (1600 X-flow) engine enough revs to keep it from stalling & to engage then find the bite on the clutch pulling the car forward & letting it roll back a few inches either way without use of foot or handbrake before i was taught to move off & change gear. In effect he made me learn to do a hill start without a handbrake when i could hardly see over the "oval" wheel & tippy toes on the pedals.
I did'nt learn how to change gear 'til i'd mastered that.
No offence but maybe Ann would benefit from proper lessons. We all have our own way of learning. 
The whole thread is full of excellent advice, but if Ann doesn’t master the clutch then it spoils the rest of the lesson. I agree with Amigomv6, and would find a quiet trading estate with an incline. Then every now and again take a rest from the clutch control and go through the gears.
When I taught my Mum to drive after she had failed 3 tests with a woman instructor. We first did clutch control, then I taught her to change gear every 10mph, 1st=10mph, 2nd=20mph and 3rd=30mph.
Then after this we moved on by teaching her to listen to the engine. The problem I picked up on was that she had always been told when to change gear. So we sussed the right sound for the engine, so she picked up on the slight judders to change down regardless of speed, and if the engine got noisy to change up. She soon sussed this on the hill start clutch control. Low revs the car bit and died, higher revs, she heard and felt the clutch bite, revs too high etc etc.
Did as much as she felt comfortable with, then one day without realizing we just continued off into the countryside with out her even realising. All of a sudden it just sunk in for her, she listed to the engine, started changing gears every 10mph and then started to adapt to the noise of the engine.
A few mistakes like forgetting to indicate, a few stalls, bit by bit I said less to her, she dealt with her nerves slowly. Till one day she was just driving where she wanted but told me her intentions as we went along and she got comfortable behind the wheel.
Then one day on a big empty trading estate, we were heading for a T junction, plenty of all round view with no traffic, Mum said she was going to turn right, she actually indicated left, I wondered what was about to happen, she suddenly realized her mistake and for some reason went straight out across the junction. I didn’t panic but was getting ready to grab the hand brake.
She hit the brakes and stalled the car and as she did a car started to appear. He had seen her and slowed, she applied the handbrake, put it in neutral, started the car, checked all round as you do, 1st gear, found the biting point and did a perfect move away in the right direction. She pulled over properly and switched off and said. "I completely buggered that up didn’t I" When I asked her which bit and asked if she would ever do that again, she said no way she would ever screw a junction up like that ever again. When I told her the rest was perfect, we then went home, and she said I am ready for test now.
She then passed nest attempt, and admitted she was so glad she didn’t take the automatic option that she was considering.
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